Re: [CR]Re: A'ME hoods

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Avocet)

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 08:27:21 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: A'ME hoods
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worthy2@earthlink.net wrote:
> Adding more than the 2 cents these deserve: as I recall A'MEs big
> inovation was to make these hoods (all styles) out of either PVC
> (that's vinyl) or Kraton synthetic rubber. Either substance was
> cheaper than the natural gum rubber that Campy and Modolo were using,
> so these knock-offs could be sold for $5 a pair AND made in all the
> "hip" 80s colors that never even occured to the Italians!

Not to mention, they don't rot like the natural gum ones!

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA