i dunno about "early"... those yokes look to me like those produced in the 1980s for mounting cantilever brakes to bmx frames and such - for the life of me, i cant remember who made them...
ive got some mafac cantis that are also stamped "mafaciacs". ive never quite figured out what that was all about.
-joel
At 05:38 -0400 05.31.2007, Stronglight49@aol.com wrote:
>Interesting set of cantilever calipers with long custom "U" yokes for
>hanging from a central bolt. Still with old French blue paint.
>Clever! Never
>seen this treatment before. Attached wrong, but you can imagine the concept
>easy enough.
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>eBay item: 160122788247
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>Bob Hanson, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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