From: "Vince Strazzabosco" <vstrazzabosco@yahoo.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:39 PM
Subject: [CR]Weinmann Brakes on a Fixie Raleigh Super Hi,Grand Prix.
> I've got a '78 Raleigh Super Grand Prix frame I recently acquired
> from someone who wasn't going to use it. I'm setting it up as a
> fixie, but also with a fip around freewheel. So I wanna have brakes
> for some of the riding I'll do.
>
>>From what I know, the bike came with long gone Weinmann center-pull
> brakes. Any comments on what model I should look for? The wheels
> are Mavic laced to vintage Suntour hubs, off a fixie track bike I
> came across cheap.
My Super Grand Prix has Weinmann 610 centerpulls.(the shorter of the centerpulls-750 being the long reach) Hopefully the cable stop bridge is still there or you'll have to dig something up. Of course you could find sidepulls with the proper reach and use them.
Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa. USA