In a message dated 5/29/2003 5:38:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mattmatthew@hawaii.rr.com writes:
> The way I figure it -- if I didn't do that, the hoods would have
> eventually torn anyway, the tear getting larger with time. It amazes me
> that for all the well-designed parts of that same era, the hoods were
> the most faulty.
I've used gel type "super glue" on hoods and it seemed to work well.
As for the hoods being the most faulty? I save that for the self adjusting downtube shift levers!
Pete "agitator" Geurds
Douglassville, PA