Greetings campers and GB wannabees.
Didn't come out of the Cirque swap completely empty handed. Found a GB catalog & pricelist of undetermined vintage. Brakes; Coureur 66, Coureur Plus, Sport MK3, Sprite, (w/ exploded views of the 66 and Plus calipers & levers), bars w/ model names & dimensions, stems, toe clips, wing nuts, hubs (probably Altenberger, guessing from the distinctive shape of the QR lever), brake lever hoods and other misc bits and pieces. Collect the whole set.
Wasted my lunch hour getting it scanned and ready for your viewing pleasure. Have it down to six pages, 2000 - 2600 KB each in pdf. Anybody who wants them, let me know off-list. Anybody with a web site they want to put this on, please let me know. That would be easier for everybody. Anybody with a reasonable guess as to vintage, please let me know. Anybody who wants to guess as to the identity of the two riders on the cover, you're on your own. I've seen those guys somewhere before, but maybe it was just a GB magazine ad. Catalog is pre- "Syncron" brakes, but I'm not sure when those first came out. I seem to remember 63 or 64, but .........(enter snotty sarcastic comment about my memory here).
Fine, even I don't trust my memory, but eventually I remembered Pete Paine
has some GB info up on his site. Shows a Coureur Plus caliper from 1957,
Sprite caliper from early 60s, and mentions the Syncron came out in 64, so
at least for now I'm guessing the catalog is early 60s, before 64.
http://www.oldcyclebits.co.uk/
And please, feel free to strangle me if I ever succumb to a compulsion to equip a bike with a complete set of GB components.
On "The Road to Success" (according to the GB propaganda) Larry "Heebie-GBs" Osborn Morgantown WV