I remember selling the Universal 68s in the box for 29.95 around 1973. I never had brown ones though. At that price an attractive upgrade if you had big strong hands.
Universal was a funny company. They never seemed to understand the issues of leverage for design of sidepulls. The last generation Universal Aer brakes with composite levers I have on my Tesch are just horrible stoppers.
Todays factoid: An interesting thing about Universal was they came in many lengths for most models. So an exhaustive collection would be huge.
Joe BenderZanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> Yes, nice to see that some one did the same kind of thing I did -
replacing parts to those of our taste or hair-brained ideas.
>
> Any one know if the head set is English or Raleigh proprietary thread?
Current head set is non descript chorme steel which leads me to believe
Raleigh thread. No, don't have a loose head set for trial.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Cielec
> Chicago, Ill
>
> OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/26/2004 7:46:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> teaat4p@yahoo.com writes:
>
> << Among components are root beer brown anodised Universal Super 68 side
> pulls. >>
>
> Now that's cool. Certainly not stock. Never heard of any Raleigh or
Carlton
> coming with Universals...
>
> Dale Brown
> Snow drift #32
> Greensboro, NC
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