The 68's I'm familiar with were sidepulls, while 61's were centerpulls. These two brakesets were the ones usually seen on "all-Campy" Italian bikes before the Campy brakes were introduced and for a few years after that until people came to accept the then-astronomical price of Campy brakes.
Regards,
Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
Paul Woloshansky <bikwalla@telus.net> wrote: If memory serves me, The 61's were long-reach calipers, 68's the short-reach version?
Aside: I have a set of old Universal levers which have enough travel, I'm sure, to be paired w/ v-brakes on a friend's MTB touring conversion; my question is, does anyone know a source for the gum rubber hoods for these levers? If anyone has an old pair installed on a bike and the gum rubber hoods are dried out/cracking, you can "reconstitute" the rubber by applying glycerine, available at a drugstore/chemist's.
Cheers,
Paul Woloshansky