I had a NOS set of these brakes. I sold them on eBay to a Japanese guy for around $900. My understanding is that they were sold in Europe for a very short time. Some problem with the brake cable set screw showed up and Campy recalled them. I bought mine from Italy, not through Campy, so I don't think they are prototypes. They are very rare because nobody wanted a defective brake set. I remember Campy was very strongly trying to get these back, but I wanted to keep them just for fun. I never used them. They are very different than the Delta brakes that finally came out. By the way, the Cobalto brakes were what they gave out to replace these defective ones, and also what they sold in the C-Record group when they came out here. The levers were the white hood aero or normal cable type.
Jim Merz Bainbridge Is. WA
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-admin@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Tom Dalton Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:49 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Ebay outing. Oh so close to off-topic
Has this not come up because you are all so disciplined about staying in the SR era and earlier? Come on, it is 1984, according the the auction, and if it is a prototype, it is actually earlier. This has all the elements of great CR banter. It's Campy, it's rare, it may be very rare... there's the who E-bay variable and the seller even mentioned our Ritchie by name. What's up Ritchie? DO you really have another 33% of the global supply? Is this really a proto, or is it just the very rare first gen production model. Looks like photos I've seen of the G-1 production and pretty similar the second-gen ones I've seen in the flesh, though different in a million ways. Very nice finish for a prototype. Back to check the Campy-Only links.
Which Japanese collector will win?????
Tom Dalton
Bethlehem, PA
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