Hi Jim:
Oh no! Et tu, Brute?
So how can you be sure if you have no proof? You may have a strong opinion, but you can't be sure, right?
I'll ask the questions again: has anyone on this list ever held in his or her hand a Production "long-reach" SR brake lever? Does anyone currently have one?
They don't exist. There were not five generations of the SR headset either; there were normal Production run variations (plus different/reworked stamping/forging dies that caused additional minor variation within print specifications over the years), and Campy's anodizing changed over the years on many parts....
Folks, none of this is rocket science; it's just normal volume-Production of (the best ever IMO) bicycle parts. Let's get real a little here. I'm as interested as anyone is in true design changes on Record/NR/SR parts, but normal Production run-to-run variations are not Design changes. Hello!!!
(Jim, this is not directed personally at you. I'm just getting exhausted by some of this "Bologna" floating around).
End of rant....
Thanks,
Greg Parker A2 MI USA
> From: "Jim Merz" <jimmerz@qwest.net>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: FW: [CR] Early SR lever shape, really, hallucinating
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> Pretty funny this whole thing. I have no proof, but I am sure they had a
> different lever shape in the first SR parts.
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> Jim Merz
> Bainbridge Is. WA