Hi All,
Newbie here so apologies if this has been covered a thousand times. I keep coming across references to Robbie Fellows in relation to reproduction hoods for Campy levers, can anybody supply the contact details? I've trawled back through the archives and the email address on Robbie's posts doesn't seem to work. Thanks.
Happy New Year to everyone.
Harry McMillan Argyll, Scotland
On 1 Jan 2010, at 16:08, Toni Theilmeier wrote:
> What with dale complaining that only about forty of the seventeen
> hundred CR members post regularly, it is perhaps a good idea to
> harp in again, starting with the best wishes for the new year, fun
> and above all safe cycling, which is right what I´m on about.
>
> Preparing my bikes for the next season I had two nasty shocks over
> the last couple of days. To begin with I found that a pair of
> plastic, bonded pad Aztec brake shoes had un-bonded, leaving me
> with a funny noise when adjusting the brakes which made me look,
> and then my hair stand on end, when one of the pads fell straight
> off after I had taken the wheel out. It´s the ones with the yellow
> wear indicator thingies. I had these in Mafac Racers, maybe some of
> you have, too, so while this doesn´t sound on-topic, it is.
>
> And now to Robbie: I thought it was time to replace some old, ex-
> white Dia Compe gum hoods on a pair of NR brake levers with these
> wonderful hoods of Robbie´s. Always keeping a pair or two of them
> in my Campag drawer (as any discerning CR member should, for sure),
> I took to work. The second Dia Compe hood off, I found that the
> former owner of the bike had _glued_ a piece of the grey lever body
> back after it had broken off, leaving the crack visible, to give a
> nice look-through effect with the glue. Good grief. I know that NR
> brakes weren´t supposed to stop the bike, but a brake lever
> breaking in two during a ride is overstating the point. So a big
> THANK YOU, ROBBIE, because I probably wouldn´t have bothered if it
> hadn´t been for his hoods.
>
> I´m now one grey NR brake lever body short of a pair - has anyone
> got a lever I could source the body from, perhaps? No clamp, no
> worm screw needed, just the body, preferably an unglued specimen.
>
> Thanks, and kind regards, Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.
>
> P.S.: Still on analog dial up internet, so PLEASE no pictures. Thanks.