Re: [CR]Mid 70s Component Choices in the UK

(Example: Framebuilding:Norris Lockley)

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:27:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: "wilc" <cherrycycle1@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [CR]Mid 70s Component Choices in the UK
To: kohl57@starpower.net
In-Reply-To: <380-22006141922184237@M2W034.mail2web.com>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

HI ,i think that most if not all GB racing men in mid 70's rode campagnolo ,it was the best available and the old motto 'campag wears in and shimano wears out 'was very in vogue at the time , although an old friend WALLACE McNAUL now retired who ran a racing team' Team Route' also Traded/as' wallacesport ' would have been a very great influence in N.IRELAND in the switch over to shimano dura ace. norris lockley what do you say?? WILLIE CARTON.. NEWBIE

"kohl57@starpower.net" <kohl57@starpower.net> wrote: OK, a general question for our British members...

Suppose it's mid 1970s and you have a top o' the heap British frameset lik e a Harry Quinn. You want to spec the components. Pure racing stuff, no touring or puttering about. So fast and light. What was the prevailing

stuff in the clubs back then? In the USA it was of course the usual Campy/Cinelli mix. But what if you want something different? I was thi nking it would be nice to have a Huret Jubilee/TA chainset/Maillard 700 hubs/Weinmann or Mavac brakes set up. Of course it's "MY" choice. But did the lads do this back then in the UK i.e. French components or Zeus or did they, like us overhere, go the Campy route if money was no object. I wan t to be different but I don't want to be laughed out of the club. Suppose the frame had Campagnolo drop-outs, would that influence the choices?

Peter Kohler Washington DC USA

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