Congratulations Christian,
Unless you explicitly cleared this posting with our intrepid listmeister (...in which case you would have been well served to mention that fact clearly within the body of your message), I believe that you have managed to out your eBay auction listing for a completely off topic (...albeit very interesting) bit of hardware. And regardless of any public or private admonishment you may receive as a result of having done so, there remains a strong possibility that you have quite conveniently managed to influence the potential sales price of that lovely Delta brakeset. Somehow your actions strike me as being either wholly clueless or particularly mercenary, and in either case, I see them as being a poor reflection upon what I had thought to be the intent of this forum.
Robert "as viewed from atop my ever so small soapbox" Broderick ...the "Frozen Flatlands" of South Dakota
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>From: "Christian Rothe" <rothe@amitra.de>
>To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]Very early Campagnolo Delta brakes from 1984
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:09:22 +0200
>
>
>At the moment there is a set of very early Campagnolo Delta brakes from
>1984
>on eBay:
>http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
>They exactly look like the Delta prototypes which are presented on
>Campyonly.com:
>http://www.campyonly.com/history/delta_prototypes.html
>
>I am the seller of the set on eBay. Prior to writing my item description
>I
>did a lot of research on the Internet. As stated in that description it
>was
>my assumption that my brake belonged to the first run of serial
>production
>of the Delta brakes.
>
>Yesterday I received a message from a collector (Dirk Feeken who is
>pretty
>well known on this discussion list): Dirk said that this generation of
>Deltas was given to bicycle manufacturers in 1984 in order to allow them
>to
>take pictures of their bike for their 1985 catalogs. According to him
>this
>Delta model never was available to the public.
>
>If you got to Campyonly.com you can read that there are only three
>prototype
>sets in existence. According to Dirk this number is an invention by an
>eBay-seller who incorrectly claimed that there were only three sets: The
>one
>owned by Richard Sachs, the one owned by Campagnolo and his. As Dirk
>told me
>there were more set than just three, but they were all prototypes. That
>would mean that my set on eBay is a prototype set, too.
>
>Is there anyone out there who can tell me: Was that very first
>generation of
>Delta sold to the public or not?
>
>Christian Rothe
>Baden-Baden
>Germany