RE: [CR]Campagnolo Huret and the Bronze Age

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From: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Campagnolo Huret and the Bronze Age
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:16:30 -0700


Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> > The bar end shifter that preceeded the downtube
> > shifter was only made in aluminum from my
> > understanding.
>
> Scott Davis wrote:
> >
> > Chuck, here's a bronze bar end shifter, which I once
> > owned...
> http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/francopedia/vwp?.dir=/RARE+CAMPY&.src=ph&.dnm=Cam py+Commando+Derag+Centrale.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.yahoo.com/bc/fr ancopedia/lst%3f%26.dir=/RARE%2bCAMPY%26.src=ph%26.view=t

Scott, why do you think those parts are bronze? Can you see bronze somewhere where the plating is worn off, or...? I have to say, just from looking at the photo, it sure looks like aluminum to me. Brass or bronze bike parts are usually chrome plated, and I'll bet a gross of twizzlers the part in the pic isn't chromed. It's possible nowadays to plate bronze to look like aluminum, good enough to fool me in a picture that size anyway, but that wasn't done back then that I know of.

Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA