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
> 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 the shorter #1010B dropouts that superseded the long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.)
> >
>
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