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>Chuck Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> Well here's the picture of Viktor Kapitanov getting his new
>> Cinelli Super Corsa outside Cino's shop (?) after winning the
>> '60 Rome Olympic RR.
>>
> > http://www.velo-retro.com/
>
>Cool! Probably safe to assume that the bike represented Cinelli's idea
>of an ideal road bike or close to it, eh? Wouldn't give anything less
>to an Olympic champion.
>
>So, are those Mafac Dural Forge brakes with Universal levers?
>
>Mark Bulgier
>Seattle WA USA
Great photo! The brakes sure look like Mafacs. BTW, the model always was called RACER, but only in the late 1960s/early 1970s did Mafac begin to put the model names on their brakes...
I heard from somebody else that in the late 1950s/early 1960s, Cinelli recommended the Mafac Racer brakes...
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