Re: [CR]Re: Suicide Levers

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

From: <RALEIGH531@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:45:19 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Suicide Levers
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 12/16/00 7:54:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, bob.reid1@virgin.net writes:
> I'd love to repair & maintain top stuff all day, but I still get 70's & 80's
> low to mid-end Raleighs and Peugeots needing their brakes "fixed" with
> extension levers, horrible as they are. Personally I'd throw them away too -
> they were just a good idea with a bad application.

I don't know if anyone asked this yet......... A lot of our discussions automatically assume we're talking about the USA and bikes made or imported here. So when we started seeing reflectors and extension levers on the brakes, and changes to Campy components due to rules by the Consumer Product Safety Commision(CPSC) was this happening in the UK or Europe as well?

I'm thinking economics dictated the hardware was the same, maybe the reflectors were a US only thing. I can picture some Italian mechanics looking at new Campy components with rounded edges shaking their heads asking "tell me again, why did they do this?"

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa