[CR]Campagnolo brake levers - "everybody knows that..."

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:29:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "Tom Dalton" <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Campagnolo brake levers - "everybody knows that..."

You wrote:

<<Campagnolo produced levers in one way only - by stamping out a sheet and then cutting/bending it to the shape of the lever. Any levers that are drilled are merely record levers that have been drilled out. This is why very often they have a different amount of holes.>>

Wow, finally, finally THE definitive answers to these nagging old questions. It is is pretty amusing to think guys like Greg Parker and Chuck Schmidt, who I thought knew something about Campy, have been laboring under the misguided notion that there were some very early levers that had drilled holes. Set aside the fact that Chuck has a set of drilled Campy levers on which the machined surfaces are covered by the clear anodizing, and you start to wonder where these crazy ideas come from.

<<Campagnolo first generation super record levers were produced between 1973 and 1977....>>

Yes, I will accept this "fact" and reject the belief the the lever change predated the CPSC change because you say so.

<<The type Mr Denny refers to as "first generation" are nothing of the sort. They are post CPSC levers so are the second type of lever. Nothing really changed from then on save from the "brev camp" being removed from the cable stop ends. Mr Denny certainly does know a lot but I do not think that his expertise is campagnolo going by past dealings with him.>>

I happen to agree that Ken was off the mark on when he called that particular lever first generation, but I would not discount his knowledge of matters Campagnolo.

Tom Dalton

Bethlehem PA

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