Had a nice little vintage bike show in Portland Sunday in conjunction with the 100th anniversery celebration of our Mt.Tabor park which is on an extinct volcano.
Local builders Mitch Pryor (MAP) and Tony Pereira appeared, riding their own machines. Vintage bikes included a 1960's Viking path, early 1970's Legnano Roma, 1973 Paramount, my own Meteor badged 1969 Carleton Franco-Suisse, early Dura Ace equipped Apolo (Japanese), Pederson replica, two Miayta 1000's, Rivendell "Betty Joy", my wife's Ed Litton-built Shula (designed by Hiroshi Imura of Jitensha Studio), beautiful 1970's Merz, Cuevas among others. A beautiful black MAP too, shown at Cirque and I think NAHBS decked out with Jubilee, 49D, 650b, highly polished.
Little swap, nothing sold, but at the end a man shows with two plastic grocery bags of parts to sell...BMX seats and stuff. Out pops a beautiful french-looking chain guard, which my compatriot Larry Meyers nabs, set of cracked Phil CHP pedals, and a set of black Mathauser Superbrakes that are now in my basement.
Question - when were the Superbrakes offered? Acompanying literature compared them favorably to Campagnolo brakes, and at $300 list, they should. These are amazing pieces, not sure I've ever seen these before. Supposedly super light, with titanium and magnesium bits, integrated finned pad holders.
What does anyone know about the Superbrakes?
John Siemsen
Portland, Oregon