Re: [CR]Ron Kitching Catalogs - Where's Campy?

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Subject: Re: [CR]Ron Kitching Catalogs - Where's Campy?
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:00:27 -0500
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From: "Dale Brown" <oroboyz@aol.com>


I didn't see any other response on list so I thought I would chime in... Holdsworth was the exclusive Campagnolo importer at that time so Kitching did not want to promote a product he could not supply nor profit from. Kitching had the exclusive in Suntour, TA and Zeus. Simplex was yet another importer.

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-----Original Message----- From: Scott Edrington <scott@edrington.net> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:51 am Subject: [CR]Ron Kitching Catalogs - Where's Campy?

I was looking at a couple of Ron Kitching catalogs (1979 & 81) and notice d no listings for Campy components? The 1981 catalog has a lot of data on component weight by model/manufacture and curious why there are no listi ngs for Campy hardware. Except for few cases, the data suggests that the Zeus 2000 component line was one of the lightest component lines manufact ured at that time. I'm interested in Campy data (not copy cat opinions) a nd how it compares with Zeus data at that time.

Happy New Year!

Scott Edrington
San Diego CA, USA