Re: [CR]Quick Campagnolo headset ID please

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From: <RaleighPro531@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:47:37 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Quick Campagnolo headset ID please
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 9/22/2003 9:36:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, FujiFish1@aol.com writes:
> I have a 1978 Raleigh Competition that came to me equipped with a mix of
> NR and GS plus, and I'm trying to ID the headset. It is Campagnolo, steel,
> with only two opposing wrench flats on the adjuster cup and no stampings on
> the
> sides of either cup (smooth, and very nice), 50 small loose bearings, and
> has
> English threads. Any IDeas, please? Thanks..

FWIW: My 1980 Competition GS has a Gran Sport headset. Note that it has a shorter stack height like track headsets. Found out when I tried to use a regular Record headset and didn't have enough threads for the nut.

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA