snipped: "Riders around here wouldn't have been caught dead with them in their bikes! So they languished on the shelves."
listmeister-issimo,
i know you're refering to dust caps here, but this snipped
text is the root of this thread and others like it; in the 70s
as well as in the era(s) that followed, no one (i knew) would
have been caught dead with anything that was recently replaced
or updated. whether it's calipers, chainrings, seatposts, cinelli
stems, 5 speed freewheels...folks almost always left the prior
iteration for dead as soon as the suppliers intro-ed the next
version. so what happened? these older parts were tossed, or
sold cheaply, or "languished on the shelves", or are now on
ebay. it's the natural order of things. why fight it? if
all this timeline stuff was still mainstream and available,
who would be reading this?
e-RICHIE
chester, ct
In a message dated 11/16/2004 12:55:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, gillies@cs.ubc.ca writes:
<< I think that someone in italy is still making campy dust caps, and a few other things. It just doesn't make sense to see new NOS patent ones showing up on ebay every week for the past 2 years ... >>
Well, part of that might be that crank arm dust caps were considered dorky and "Fred" for most of the era we are interested in. Riders around here wouldn't have been caught dead with them in their bikes! So they languished on the shelves.
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina