Re: [CR]RE: CLB Ti(?) Brakeset

(Example: Racing)

From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]RE: CLB Ti(?) Brakeset
References: <7EFA1231.6DC52EC7.0FD8938F@netscape.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:23:17 -0700

> Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>
> I don't believe these are ti. Logically there would be no reason to
> make them out of titanium. Titanium is heavier than aluminum and CLB
> makes (made?) aluminum brakes just like everyone else did beginning in
> the mid-1930s.
>
> I would, however, believe they are 'ti-color' anodized aluminum calipers...
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> SoPas, SoCal

Kurt Sperry wrote:
>
> Another listmember wrote me off-list (I don't know the etiquette here, so I will withhold the name of the sender given that it was sent to me off list):
>
> "These are Ti Calipers. Part of a set of Ti Calipers and Levers that CLB produced in the late 70's (I believe 1978)."
>
> The seller says that they are Ti, they LOOK Ti.

Well there you are! If the seller states the calipers are made of titanium then they are titanium...

(I believe however, that eBay requires informed buyers, not informed sellers, if you get my drift ;)

Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

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