[CR]anodizing and tradition

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:08:19 -0500
From: "Grant McLean" <Grant.McLean@SportingLife.ca>
To: "Classic Rendezvous Mail List (E-mail)" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]anodizing and tradition

Chuck, Aldo, others (if still following this thread)

Firstly, Fred Rogers, Rest in Peace

OK, so what I found interesting about the dates listed by Aldo is that if you overlay the concept of tradition to these dates, what logic follows?

If you take the idea that Campagnolo would resist change, and not feel any need to start anodizing parts they had already been selling, it makes some sense. Take hubs for example. Can't you see Tullio saying "I invented the qr, what else do you want from me?" or "We've been selling hubs for 20 years

just fine, you want me to start anodizing them why?"

Since many of the chrome plated parts were replaced with new aluminum ones, this is the time that the anodized parts would appear. It seems a traditional response, if maybe a somewhat complacent one.

Basically, what i'm guessing is that there was no "master plan" at work. The answer for each component is different. Take the front derailleur, maybe it's not anodized because when campagnolo started making front ders, in '51? they didn't anodize anything, so ever since then, they didn't anodize front ders. The rear derailleur is anodized, maybe because by the time it was redesigned from bronze and chrome, they were already anodizing cranks, and so this new design would get anodized.

It seems to me that every new category of component campagnolo got into _after_ they first started anodizing are ALL anodized. ALL the parts that were first introduced BEFORE anodizing, are all still not anodized, at least

up to 1983.

Comments?

Grant McLean Toronto, Mr. Rogers original Neighborhood, Canada

approx-1933 three-piece hubset with aluminum flanges - not anodized post-1951 bar-end shifters with aluminum levers - not anodized post-1951 downtube shifters with aluminum levers - not anodized 1951? front derailleur with aluminum housing - not anodized 1955? aluminum downtube shift levers - not anodized 1956 pedals with aluminum body - not anodized post-1956 aluminum seat post - not anodized 1958 all-aluminum hub shells - not anodized 1958 aluminum cranks - ANODIZED 1960 front mech with aluminum clamp - ANODIZED 1967 aluminum derailleur - ANODIZED 1968 aluminum brake levers - ANODIZED 1968 aluminum brake calipers - ANODIZED 1971 aluminum pedal cages - ANODIZED 1973 aluminum headset - ANODIZED 1974 aluminum headset - ANODIZED

Did I miss anything?

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio