Harvey "grumpy tonight" Sachs0 wrote:
>
> I really appreciated the wonderful pictures of the Cambio Corsa at Date:
> Mon, 14 Oct 2002 http://ebay.com/
>
> and the nice repartee about the bike.
>
> Being something of a contrarian, it seems to me that this gives excellent
> witness to my favorite hypothesis: After the beauty and elegance of the
> early hub quick-release, Sr. Campagnolo delegated his design duties to
> others, people with a commitment to oddity for its own sake, or to genuine
> design medocrity with marvelous execution.
My sense of Tullio Campagnolo and his business is that he didn't delegate _any_ of the design duties to others, since he was a tool and die kind of guy. Extremely hands on "I made it myself!"
Nonetheless Harvey, I think I found the perfect fashion statement for you (self described contrarian)...
http://ebay.com/
Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal http://www.velo-retro.com (Campagnolo Timeline)
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