Lou,
Thanks for the time-line. In answer to your question about brakes, I
outfitted my Roberts with all Dura-Ace components in 1976. Definitely
not a delta brakeset, and though it was a long time ago and I don't
remember everything, I'm positive I bought whatever was then top of the
line.
cheers,
Scot Osterweil
On Aug 8, 2006, at 2:56 PM, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
wrote:
> Interesting to me is that Shimano used the dash between Dura and Ace,
> like this: Dura-ace. This makes it interesting when entering a
> search in the archives or ebay as often it is spelled without the dash
> as two words or even as one word, DuraAce. I also thought the delta
> brakeset came with the first generation Dura-Ace in 1973, although
> there is no mention of that innovation until the 1980 Dura-Ace AX
> introduction.