> Then there's always stuff from the what-were-they-thinking-80s.
>How about a ti railed inflatable saddle in blue? A set of large
>flange Triomphe hubs in french thread? A Braze-on Victory front
>derailleur for triple? Not that I'm sure these things are really in
>the catalogs, I'd have to check, but
The braze-on Victory triple front derailleur can't be too rare. I have one... Production numbers are funny - once something really is in the program, quite a few were made. There were not just "thousands" of Record cranks over the years, but probably hundreds of thousands.
I once read that Cyclo made 300,000 derailleurs a year in the late 1930s. The same year, Ideale made 150,000 saddles, of which 15,000 had alloy rails. Where are they all today? Imagine, at e-bay prices for Ideale 57 alloy-railed saddles, if you had a year's production...
I do not know about Campy, but considering how many bikes with the first generation parts survive, I'd put the production numbers at least in the thousands for the 1st gen. cranks, etc.
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