I have a set of these brakes on my 49 Alex Singer and they are not easy to set up. Jan, are the brake springs still available?
Mike Schmidt Millington, NJ USA
On 5/17/09 11:30 AM, "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net> wrote:
> The Alex Singer shop had their cam-actuated brakes in stock for
> decades. They had 500 sets made in the late 1940s, then the Mafac
> brakes came out, and the bike market collapsed, so there was little
> demand for these brakes. You can find them on 1960s bikes, and you
> might think that they still were "making" them, but in fact, they
> were just using up 15-year-old stocks. So the brakes remained in the
> program until they were sold out...