Re: [CR]History of Campy vertical rear dropouts

(Example: Framebuilders:Masi)

From: <themaaslands@comcast.net>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org (Classic Rendezvous)
Subject: Re: [CR]History of Campy vertical rear dropouts
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:33:55 +0000


Larry asked:
> Been wondering about this lately as I have them on my Condor, but don't ever
> see them on the classic Italian frames from the 70's. Were these type
> dropouts developed primarily for the British time trialists' market with the
> short wheelbases some of those frames had?

I recently sold a very Italian Legnano from 1970 with just these lugs. You can still see the ebay auction photos at: http://ebay.com/<blah>

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Steven Maasland
Moorestown, NJ