David Bilenkey wrote:
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> So now my question is: When did most of this light trick hardware become
> available? Is some of it more 'correct' on a later 70's bike than an earlier
> 70's bike? (cut)
The drilling, usually kind of crudely done as some of the pictures of Eddy Merckx's Colnago show, was the late 60s and early 70s. Some manufacturers got into the act with components offered drilled as stock: Stronglight and SR had drilled chainrings and Super Record levers were puched full of holes.
The light trick hardware, OMAS-Italy, ETA-Italy, Arnold Industries-USA, was from around the mid-70s to the mid 1980s and pretty much ended with the introduction of C-Record in 1985. SRP started up in the early 90s but is outside our time frame.
Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal
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