Re: [CR] Campy sure made a lot of different rubber shifter covers

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From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Campy sure made a lot of different rubber shifter covers
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 19:45:17 -0700
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


On Apr 8, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Mark Bulgier wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>
>>> I was told years ago that the "cuff-less" versions were meant for
>>> Campag bar cons.....
>>>
>
> And Phil Brown replied
>
>> Some of my barcon covers have cuffs and some don't and they
>> are all original as far as I know.
>
> Yes, I've gotten 2 or 3 sets of NOS barcons and all had cuffs. I was
> half wondering if cuffs meant barcons - cuffless for DT shifters & QR
> skewers? Still I doubt that, I'll bet it's just variation over the
> years.
>
> Smiling at the absurdity of being so obsessed over such little
> details -
> got to admit I like it though.
>
> Mark Bulgier
> Seattle WA USA

My understanding was that the covers were never meant to be used on the QR levers or DT shift levers, just for the bar-end shifters. Interestingly (to me at least) the bar-end shifters when first introduced (1951) didn't have the rubber covers. Must of been a nano second before someone said "HEY... these hurt my hands, hey?"

Yeah, I've seen photos of Merckx with the covers on his DT shifters and QR levers...

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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