<< The 1982 catalog lists?small and large flange hubs and cranksets in gold, blue, and silver, and pedals?in gold, blue and black.? Somehow red seems familiar, however, but not green. >>
I could have sworn I saw those colors go by, but you know how it is (!) with the old leaking memory banks.......
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-----Original Message----- From: Tom Dalton <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com> To: x76911s@socal.rr.com; Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>; oroboyz@aol.com Sent: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:26 am Subject: [CR]Campy track-bmx crankset question
John Waner wrote:
>From what I have been told it is very easy to remove the anodizing with oven
cleaner.
John, I've heard this too, though I'll add that I've also heard you need to be careful if you want to remove the anodizing while leaving the metal unharmed. In any case, keep in mind that a color-anodized part with the anodizing removed is not the same as a clear/silver/pearl anodized part with the finish intact. All but the earliest silver Campy cranks were anodized. Without anodizing they will corrode.
Dale Brown wrote:
Gold, red, blue, green and ?
The 1982 catalog lists small and large flange hubs and cranksets in gold, blue, and silver, and pedals in gold, blue and black. Somehow red seems familiar, however, but not green.
In any case, the BMX part that I'd really like to own would be the pedal, in black. They'd be stealth cool on my brakeless freestyle fixie.... well, no, but they'd be cool on a single speed grocery bike, that's for sure. The interesting thing about the BMX pedal is that the rivets appear not to be symmetrical around the centerline of the cage. I think Campy must have used the normal Record/SL/SR body, which is not symmetrical. Suntour, in contrast, made a BMX pedal that had a unique body, even though mechanically similar to the Superbe and later XC offerings. In fact, I think the Suntour BMX pedal predates all the similar pedals from Suntour and was based on an American pedal, perhaps the Rochester brand... or Weyless...and those may have started as road pedals, so it all comes full circle.
Tom Dalton
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