Hey Hugh:
Interesting! Maybe "BF" was yet another variation (Couild that have been Belleri?) or similar because I distinctly recall that JPR advertised those in the early to mid 1970s in French mags. Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA
-----Original Message----- From: henox@icycle.net To: tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com; oroboyz@aol.com Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Tue, 1 May 2007 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Was Odd Mavic headset now "JPR"
Subject: Re: [CR]Was Odd Mavic headset now "JPR"
> Dale wrote:
IIRC, that headset in a few variations (and maybe other stuff) was
originally
> designed and sold as a "JPR" which is Jan Routens shop. The first versions
used
> some sort of rubber compression rings to jamb itself tight rather than
lock
> rings being plz. elucidate?
Exactly right, but when I imported the JPR (actually "BF") in the early 1980's only one model was on offer. I still have half a dozen of them kicking around here.
What needs to be elucidated? MAVIC may have been inspired by the BF headset but I don't know of any other connection.
Hugh Enox
La Honda, CA