[CR]Exceltoo hub? French? Quality?

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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:40:36 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@nls.net>
Subject: [CR]Exceltoo hub? French? Quality?

I have a set of wheels, the front an old Campagnolo (I don't know how old, 1950's is my guess) and the rear has an Exceltoo (written in a cool script with a swirl at the end of the last "o") hub. I checked the CR site under French and found Excel (I assume it's the same as this) but there was no link beyond the listing of Excel (not complaining, please note, only explaining).

My question is whether this hub is French, whether it's quality or not (right now it's covered with grime and grease from about thirty years of sitting around). The skewer was Campagnolo and I wonder if there were Excel (too?) skewers, and if there were, what's the likelihood of finding one?

I used to ask Scott Davis all my French questions and not bother the list with them, but I have had a series of computer crashes (am I explaining too much: he protests too much as Hamlet says) wiping out all addresses and am only slowly rebuilding the address book.

Thank you very much.

Cheers.

tom
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