Steve Neago wrote:
>
> The name "Super Record" can be misleading on Campy pedals... SL pedals with
> their black anodized cages contain steel spindles are considered part of the
> Super Record Group.
SL pedals were intro'd in 1971 and the SR pedals were intro'd in '74.
The SR has different bearing races along with the spindles. In 1982
there was a variation on the Super Record group, called "Super Record
goup, steel" or "Super Record, reduced" that sub'd the SL pedal for the
SR pedal along with the steel BB for the Ti BB.
> Campy did make at one time titanium spindles for the SL sets but had to
> withdraw production because the spindles were brittle and fractured easily.
The Super Record pedals weren't withdrawn from production, and I've been
riding them since '76 without any breakage problem.
> I believe TI spindles were withdrawn about the time of the 1978 Consumer
> Product Safety Commission decrees to enhance bike safety.
No, they were available from distributors long after that; there was no recall. Moreno Argentin won the Colorado Springs Worlds in 1986 on a Bianchi with C-Record and the Super Record pedals and I saw them on his bike at the 1987 Coors Classic too.
Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, Southern California