Lou:
Two words (I think): Eddy Merckx.
When Eddy became obsessed with weight-saving and started "drilling-and-milling," the (pro biker & pro-biker-wannabe) world saw it, and that's when it took off IIRC.
It probably stopped after a significant percentage of the components broke!
Greg "If it ain't stock Campy, then I probably don't want it!*" Parker A2 MI USA
*Except for that cool Panto'd stuff....
In a message dated 6/12/02 6:24:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes:
> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 15:27:11 -0400
> From: LouDeeter@aol.com
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: [CR]Campagnolo "Mexico" Cranks Questions - kinda
> long
>
> Charles Andrews mention of the mid-70s Olmo Sutter brings to mind that the
> mid-to-late 70s was really that period when everyone seemed to be drilling,
> reprofiling, grooving, and otherwise, trying to shave a gram here and
> there. Actually, I was probably grooving in the late 60s as that was what
> we did then!! Was all of that started by the "Mexico" hour record or was
> it just a sign of the competitive times. I suspect that lighter alloys and
> steels and reliability concerns must have been the death knell to that sort
> of after-market lightening treatment. Anybody know? Lou Deeter, Orlando
> FL