Re: [CR]re: Mafac brake pads

(Example: Production Builders:LeJeune)

From: <RaleighPro531@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:50:43 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]re: Mafac brake pads
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 10/12/2001 11:47:45 AM Eastern Standard Time, velostuf@qwest.net writes:


> I have some pads probably from the same source (on a LaVipier card,
> right?). I have compared genuine "Mafac" marked pads against other
> copies and there are differences, but these pads appear to be exactly
> the same as Mafac. My guess is that these were made by Mafac in huge
> quantities for sale by LaVipier...

Could be, the guy mentioned they had "a lot" of these on cards and scraped them off into buckets.( thereby reducing their value by at least half ?!) BTW: These can be seen occasionally on ebay in lots of 72 pieces.

Peter T. Geurds
Douglassville, PA