>
> Call me elitist (i don't mind in the least) but I've never understood
> why anyone would want to buy a copy of Campagnolo instead of the
> original? Was it just about price?
>
There are some things I bought because they seemed to be the best
available. I do love campagnolo. But I did buy the huret jubilee
rear derailer as soon as I saw one (but it is sitting in a drawer now!),
and these zeus pedals... and a some other things.
And I also sometime got caught in the "ms. right now" syndrome ~~
versus the ms. right... but really, what's a copy? sometimes I come up
with a great idea without seeing anything _to_ copy... And it looks
just like that one over there!
And then there's some of the lower line campy stuff (especially from
a few years) I'd just as soon not waste the metal on...
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, CA
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>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:36:15 -0700
> From: Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
> Subject: [CR]Campagnolo Tenditore del Piedino tool
>
>
> On Apr 24, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Morgan Fletcher wrote:
>
>
>> Jay Sexton wrote:
>> I have a feeling the Campagnolo leg-pulling (Italian thread) tool
>> will be involved.
>>
>> Morgan Fletcher
>> Oakland, CA
>>
>
> Yeah, I've been collecting classic Italian bicycle tools from the mid
> 1930s and came across this Campagnolo tool called a "Tenditore del
> Piedino".
>
> I bought it but never fully understood what its purpose was... and only the
> other day found out what it meant: "Tenditore del Piedino" = leg-puller.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, CA
> google image search for:
> "OMAS® Tiratore della Gamba tool" and came up with this image of the
>
> classic 1954 version of the leg puller:
>
> http://vargen57.unblog.fr/
>
> Classic with a rich patina, no?
>
> Chuck "googled it" Schmidt
> South Pasadena, CA
There was a Park tool company catalog I saw around about very early 70's that had listed a rider stretcher, for those of us who wanted to "ride our big brothers bikes"... I guess this was the americanized version. It had a picture with it, but it was nowhere near as cute as that one you found on google, but then, that one just stretches one leg instead of the whole rider...
Thomas Seaman
Portland, Oregon