Okay, despite the fact that this has been discussed in the past, many
still had a word to say about it. Thanks to all for the responses.
Mark Buswell San Francisco, CA United States
On Oct 27, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> Deja vu once again, once again, once again...
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> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:41:51 -0800
> From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt(AT)earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [CR]Campagnolo Super Record bb question
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> John Thompson wrote:
> >
> > Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
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> > > Odd that Campy had so many problems dealing with Ti, as they were
> > > doing some pretty sophisticated engineering in automotive
> parts, even
> > > some for Formula 1 cars. Meantime, I've never had or heard of
> > > problems with the Ti bits in the Zeus 2000 gruppo, or with the Ti
> > > parts made by OMAS. Even Stronglight, I think, later had a
> > > successful Ti axle BB, although by then they may have learned from
> > > Campy's mistakes.
> >
> > Zeus was never as widely popular as Campagnolo, and this surely
> explains
> > at least part of why you don't hear much about Zeus Ti breakage
> > problems. And the central section of the Stronglight Ti BB
> spindle was
> > larger diameter than a standard spindle; see the bottom of page 7
> in my
> > Stronglight catalog:
> >
> > http://www.os2.dhs.org/
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> Just repeating myself here...
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> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:24:09 -0700
> From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt(AT)earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [CR]Ebay outing: Spanish Copy (Triplex?) of Campy NR
> Derailleurs
>
> Out here in California in the 1970s and 1980s The Quick Release
> Bicycle
> Club (Joe Kossak, Director Sportif, Peter Johnson, one of the
> stars) was
> sponsored by and rode Zeus components and the team members told me
> they
> were very unhappy with the reliability of the Zeus parts (I won't
> repeat
> their actual words). They did, however, like the Zeus alloy
> freewheel.
>
> These things are what make a reputation...
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, CA
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