At the risk of sounding like the poor teenager that I really was, yes the fact that the Super 68s cost $18 vs the Campy NR for $100+ definately affected my purchasing decision back then. I can remember that the first time I spent $450 on a bike, my sister had spent $400 on a used chevy nova.....and yes, she still thinks I am a nut. Nels Cone Seattle WA
Besides, for only $18 you get that wild quick release contraption too!
> To: verktyg@aol.com; freitas1@pacbell.net; Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 10:39:07 -0400
> From: oroboyz@aol.com
> Subject: Re: [CR] Universal 68s
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> Chas wrote:
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> << My first "pro" bike was a NOS 1971 Gitane Super Corsa that I bought new
> in 1973. It had a Reynolds 531 frame with all Campy NR components
> except for Mafac Competition brakes. I got it new for a whopping $150!?
> ?
>
> I wanted something more sexy than Mafacs. Campy brakes were both hard
> to find and cost almost more than I paid for the whole bike.?
> ?
>
> I purchased a set of Universal 68s for about $18. >>
>
> I may have written this here before years ago but I will risk repeating myself.
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> The first bike shop shop I managed was in 1972, and I had an affluent customer who wanted to buy a set of the "new" Campy brakes. This was an exciting and expensive development in our region, I knew of no one who actually had a set at that time.?
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> Even though these brakes had been introduced a few years earlier, they were extremely rare and hard to find. I called all the Campagnolo distributors around the country, and no one had them except Mel Pinto Imports in the Wash DC area. The asking wholesale price was $125.00!?
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> I think they had been advertised via mail order for close to that price ($129.99 at Bikeology I think?), and my customer would not pay the $150 retail (with a whopping $25 total markup to cover shipping, COD fee and minimal profit.)?
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> So it would be a year longer before I actually had a set in my hands.?
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> Dale
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> Dale Brown
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> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: verktyg@aol.com
> To: freitas1@pacbell.net; Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Fri, 15 May 2009 2:37 am
> Subject: Re: [CR] Universal 68s
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> My first "pro" bike was a NOS 1971 Gitane Super Corsa that I bought new
> in 1973. It had a Reynolds 531 frame with all Campy NR components
> except for Mafac Competition brakes. I got it new for a whopping $150!?
> ?
>
> I wanted something more sexy than Mafacs. Campy brakes were both hard
> to find and cost almost more than I paid for the whole bike.?
> ?
>
> I purchased a set of Universal 68s for about $18. The Universal brake
> pads were the worst stopping - no, slowing down pads I'd ever used.
> They didn't stop at all. They were good for rim polishing, that's all!?
> ?
>
> I switched to red Weinmann 4 block brake pads. They worked a lot better.?
> ?
>
> Chas. Colerich?
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> Oakland, CA USA?
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> ? Cinelli recommended them as they did not hit the DT near the?
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> shifters , Campy and all others (knock offs clones etc) did damage and?
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> even dent the DT. 68s swing UNDER the tube?
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> ? BOB FREITAS?
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> ? bike to work day was quite something , I did not think it was?
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> possible to ride 40 miles?
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> ? MILL VALLEY, CA USA?
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