On May 7, 2007, at 12:52 PM, George Hollenberg wrote:
> As in all areas of our hobby there's a lot of dis-information about
> the Laser, too, i.e., that the tube shapes were done with bondo--
> (nonsense), and that the Kronos brakes wouldn't stop the bike--(not
> true either), etc.
Unfortunately, quite a bit of the fairing of the tubes into each other at the head tube was accomplished with lots of bondo. This is very apparent to the eye when you see all the cracks in the surface around the back of the headtube fairing as the bondo has shrunk over the years. The few Laser's I saw had these cracks developing when the bikes were still fairly new (four or five years old?). I loved the look, these extreme design/aesthetic exercises at which Italians excel, but the cracking of the bondo was one of the reasons I was happy not to own one.
Oh, and I rode with friends that tried Modolo Kronos on their racing bikes and eventually took them off their bikes after a few months because of the braking was only marginal at best. I'd be willing to wager that you'll never find a "well used" set of Modolo Kronos brakes for auction on eBay... they were all show and no go (stop?).
"Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?" -- Groucho Marx
Sincerely,
Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, CA