In my experience the 42's are much harder to find than the 40's. When I started racing, in 1980, 40's were still "normal" and 42's "wide". That was on the east coast, which was probably behiond the curve (or the bend!) And yes Del mondo is synonomous with deep (not literally). There were actually 66 del mondos and some shallower delmondos (mod 67, perhaps) 64's bing the shallow Giros and 65 being the track-like Citerium... but you know all that. Anyway, I have two sets of old logo 40 cm del mondos and the drops differ. I think teh shallow ones were 67s.
On the 66's i used 38's from 82 to 84, 40s from 84 to 88 and 42's after that. As I grew upward and outward. Still going outward... and down
Tom delmondo Dalton
bethlehem pa
Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> wrote:Tom Dalton wrote:
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> (cut) Anyone have some old-logo 66-42's to sell cheap? I'll be non-period, gladly. Funny how rare those are. I guess they really did mostly use 40's back then.
In the mid seventies in Southern California the most popular bar to have in the racing crowd was the Cinelli Mod. 66 in the 42cm (c to c) width. That would be when the bars were the old logo too (the 66 was the deepest drop of the Cinelli bars, by the way).
Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal http://www.velo-retro.com (Timeline, reprints and t-shirts)
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