Re: [CR]brake hood ID?

(Example: Humor)

Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 14:27:01 -0700
To: Bill Laine <bill@wallbike.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Joseph Bender-Zanoni" <jfbender@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: [CR]brake hood ID?
In-Reply-To: <a05001901b76792aea111@[192.168.181.254]>


Those are probably red "Modolo Style" hoods made by Ame which made many types of aftermarket hoods in different colors. They only apeear to be available now in off colors like hot pink. I find them by checking old type bike stores with dusty stock going back into the 70s. They are not too hard to find and the rubber seems to hold up better than the gum types in storage.

I often wonder what happened to this company and their all important molds. Unfortunately the packaging does not indicate anything about what Ame was. I think they were concerned about copying designs.

Joe

At 10:22 AM 7/3/01 -0500, Bill Laine wrote:
>I have a pretty nice old Davidson that I enjoy riding but the brake
>hoods are deteriorating. These look like aftermarket hoods for the
>Super Record brakes. I would like to search out a NOS pair to have
>tucked away but I don't know what I am looking for.
>
>I have put a couple of pictures at
><http://www.wallbike.com/bill_personal/davidsonhoods.html>
>Can anyone identify these hoods? Does anyone have a set that they
>don't need any more? Or a source?

>

>Thanks

>

>Bill Laine

>New Orleans