Re: [CR]e-Richie's Vintage Brochures / Catalogs - now parts dating

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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 06:25:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David Feldman" <feldmanbike@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]e-Richie's Vintage Brochures / Catalogs - now parts dating
To: Bill_Bryant@prodigy.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <3D017834.2B422000@prodigy.net>


I know that short reach/recessed nut brakes existed before 1980 from working on and seeing various bikes. Not to start another tangent but there were a couple of Confente owners in my old club (La Grange) around 1977, those bikes both had said feature. Another So Cal-built bike, Griffon (no relation to the current aluminum one) was available that way. Also saw Rauler, Benotto, and Colnago around the same time with short/allen brakes.
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA


--- Bill Bryant wrote:


> For what it's worth, on CR in the past few months we
> discussed when the
> arrival of Campy recessed brake bolts and
> short-reach brakes occurred.
> The '81 Bikecology ad is useful because it shows
> nutted brakes and
> long-reach Campy units on that beautiful red
> Colnago. However, it does have
> the shorter #1010B dropouts that superseded the long
> #1010A models on top of
> the line racing bikes in the mid- to late 1970s.
> (It also has a *kickstand*, but we'll assume that
> was just for photographic
> purposes... )
>
> At any rate, I clearly recall working on 1980
> Colnagos with the recessed
> bolts and short reach brakes, so perhaps there was
> some variation in
> production runs for different exporters/importers
> (possibly sitting on a lot
> of long reach/nutted brake inventory), or bikes
> coming from different
> subcontractors, etc.
>
> Bill Bryant
> Santa Cruz, CA
>
>
>
>
> Steven m Johnson wrote:
>
> > (snip)
> > Steven M. Johnson, Chesapeake, VA (I should not be
> looking at page 6 of
> > that Bikeology catalog! The top in Saronni Red,
> not the bottom.)
> >
> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/bikecology-'81/bike06.jpg
> >
>
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