Re: [CR]Can You Identify? A Contest For CR List "COG-KNOW-scenti"

(Example: Framebuilders)

Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:14:46 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Can You Identify? A Contest For CR List "COG-KNOW-scenti"
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From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>


Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> Well, I know that Maillard produced an alloy FW in about the same era
> as Zeus, and I think Regina may have also. I've never owned a Campy
> alloy FW, but I assume that's not what these are.
> "R.S. Broderick" <rsb000@hotmail.com> wrote: Not too long ago, I
> stumbled across a somewhat vague eBay auction listing [...]
>
> I have temporarily posted to WoolJersey a series of four pictures
> detailing various aspects of these cogs including comparisons with
> their very similar Zeus counterparts. You are both invited and
> encouraged to peruse same using the following convenient link:
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/broderir/For-Sale/Mystery-Cogs/

I saw that option and almost bid thinking the same thing you were -- possible Zeus cogs. Apparently they're not. Campy's pretty anal about marking everything they make with one of their trademarks, so absent those I suspect they're not Campy. But Maillard, Everst, and even SunTour made alloy freewheels as well. Hard to tell unless you can match them with a body.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA