The set that came on my 1980 Masi (don't know if the pedals are original, but I got the bike in 1987) had plastic Campy-marked caps. I'd like to replace them with a steel pair, just for durability. One has broken off already.
Ken Freeman
Ann Arbor, MI
USA
> I'll put the question first: Did the very early Campagnolo Record Superleggera
\r?\n> pedals feature the plastic SL dustcap? Now the details: I was lucky to find a
\r?\n> set of the first generation Record SL pedals at the T-Town event on Saturday.
\r?\n> They set me back a whopping $10, because they were just a beat up old set of
\r?\n> pedals to the seller. They are, in fact, a little beaten up, with significant
\r?\n> cleat wear, and crash scrapes on one pedal, but they are presentable, and rare.
\r?\n> I'm talking about the early version on which the cage is formed from a flat
\r?\n> sheet of aluminum, and which looks pretty much like a steel Record cage rendered
\r?\n> in aluminum. One of my pedals had an obviously incorrect modern dust cap, and
\r?\n> the other had a regular steel Campy dust cap. This lead me to wonder of the SL
\r?\n> dustcap was present from the beginning. I checked the 1971 catalog 16
\r?\n> supplement that introduced the SL pedal, but the part numbers for all the small
\r?\n> parts were not listed. The next complete
\r?\n> catalog (#17) shows the special dust cap for the SL pedal, but that catalog
\r?\n> came out later (1973).
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I suspect that the plastic cap was present from the beginning. I suspect that
\r?\n> an early user of these pedals damaged a cap, and when he replaced it he used a
\r?\n> steel cap. It makes sense, becasue it is likely that in the first couple of
\r?\n> years following the intro of the SL, most of the available spare dustcaps would
\r?\n> have been the standard-of-the-day steel cap, and the plastic would have been a
\r?\n> "special" item. This is the opposite of the way things are today, where we can
\r?\n> still occasionally find the plastic caps since all the pedals used them by the
\r?\n> time production stopped.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> So, anyone on the list who owns a set of these pedals, I'm hoping that you can
\r?\n> check to see which type of cap they employ. Again, I'm talking about the very
\r?\n> early verison with the flat cage, the one that looks for all the world like a
\r?\n> KKT Pro Ace or other less expensive Campy SL knockoff.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Tom Dalton
\r?\n> Bethlehem, PA, USA
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