Re: [CR]ZEUS Brake Hoods

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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:45:52 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]ZEUS Brake Hoods
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Scott Edrington wrote:
> I'm looking for a couple sets of Zeus Brake Levers hoods. I know they
> are hard to come by and any recommendations on other mfgs of hoods I
> can use?

Banana_Brain often has obscure Zeus stuff on his eBay store, but I don't see any lever hoods at the moment.

Otherwise, I was able to stretch a set of cheap, third-party Campy replacement hoods on to a set of Zeus levers:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/zeus-hoods.jpg

Probably not what you're looking for if you're doing a correct restoration, but for a rider they seem to work.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA