Mine were from ebay, but not the ones pictured, and cost 2/5ths of that price.
I'm now re-thinking the brakes on my 1952 Gillott. Maybe the Bartalis mated to a pair of Alp stirrups, anyone have a pair to sell? :-)
Simon Bird
London
England
> From: Jeff Slotkin <jeffslotkin@comcast.net>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: Bartali levers AKA Le Roi des Grimpeurs
\r?\n> To: "simon bird" <simonandonandon@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009, 11:45 AM
\r?\n> Assuming (hoping) you got the eBay
\r?\n> ones, I think they appear much more nicely made than the
\r?\n> others you link'd to.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Jeff Slotkin,
\r?\n> usually at
\r?\n> The Bicycle Shoppe,
\r?\n> Charleston, SC
\r?\n>
\r?\n> On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:39 PM, simon bird wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> > Listers,
\r?\n> > I have just bought a pair of these levers for possibly
\r?\n> a good price (I haven't received them yet)
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > I couldn't find many good images or good information
\r?\n> on them on-line and I'm hoping that you (all) might be able
\r?\n> to help.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Do any of you have links to good images of the
\r?\n> levers?
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > How many types were there? I know of 3 but can only
\r?\n> find images of 2;
\r?\n> > And who made them?
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/
\r?\n> > or
\r?\n> > http://tinyurl.com/
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/
\r?\n> > or
\r?\n> > http://tinyurl.com/
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > What were the years of popularity? I've seen photos of
\r?\n> Bartali using them in 1949 (I think for the first time) -
\r?\n> oddly not on the bike in The Competition Bicycle, though
\r?\n> some photos of that year's Tour do show them. Bartali seems
\r?\n> to be riding the ones from the first link - or very
\r?\n> similar.
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Some seem to fetch good money, is one design more
\r?\n> desirable than the others?
\r?\n> >
\r?\n> > Simon Bird
\r?\n> > London
\r?\n> > England.