Re: [CR]Mystery Campy Shift Lever

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:28:46 -0700
From: "Lee Berg" <lberg@ventoux.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Mystery Campy Shift Lever
References: <3c95393c826e.3c826e3c9539@icomcast.net> <3E9883E9.DCC3CDDB@ventoux.com>


Sorry: meant to type "Turismo" below (not "Tursismo").

Lee Palo Alto

Lee Berg wrote:
>
> That shifter (Part No. 1013/1b) goes with (vis. red motif) the Cambio
> Gran Tursismo (AKA "GT", AKA "The Steel Beast" ;-). It appears on Page
> 4 of the Supplement to Catalog No. 16. And, not inappropriately, it is
> pictured between the GT rear derailleur and the aforementioned Elefante
> shifter.
>
> Lee Berg
> Palo Alto
>
> Mara & Steven Maasland wrote:
> >
> > Steve asked:
> >
> > > Ok, you vintage Campy experts. Here's a shift lever I've never seen.
> > > What's up with that huge chrome washer?
> > > http://ebay.com/<blah
> >
> > My guess is that it is a plain and simple regular DT shifter where a
> > washer has been taken from an Elefante shift lever. I cannot imagine it
> > to have ever come like this from the Campagnolo plant. Anybody else
> > have more conclusive evidence?