When most of us think Gran Sport, we think of the "real" Gran Sport that faded away after the introduction of Record, not the Nuovo Gran Sport stuff that came later. However, I thought the Nuovo Gran Sport front changer was a cheap and nasty version of the Record one -- was there a change at some point?
Hugh Thornton Nantwich, England
>From: Bikerdaver@aol.com
>To: REClassicBikes@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: Re: [CR]Gransport vs Valentino. front Mech. Good Point
>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 20:22:08 -0400
>
>Martin-
>The only thing I can think of is that Campagnolo doesn't really know what
>it is selling and they had better get on the ball like the rest of us here
>on the CR List. Cheers,
>Dave Anderson
>Cut Bank MT
>
>In a message dated Thu, 18 Jul 2002 4:14:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>REClassicBikes writes:
>
> > My Campag no 17 Catalogue shows the Gran sport (nouvo) and valentino
>front
> > mechs as being one and the same item. Same part number, made up of the
>same
> > parts (and numbers). So to me this is the same item placed in two
>different
> > groups. I realise that there are earlier variants of this mechanism that
>are
> > different, but it seems to me it evolved to a point were it
> > was used in both
> > groups.