Looking to buy for my time trial project:
Stronglight A9 headset, black anodised, English thread NOS to excellent condition
Cinelli 1R/1A black anodised stem, 26.4, 120-130 mm extension
Weinmann 500 brakeset, black anodised, prefer NOS
Campagnolo Super Record titanium PISTA pedals (can part trade for a pair of titanium SR strada pedals)
And a question prefacing a "want".... did the Roval wheelsets have their own specific skewer set? Everyone wheelset I've seen on offer (and the one I bought) seems sans skewers.
Please reply privately and many thanks
Peter Kohler
Washington DC USA
> From: Steve Whitting <ciocc_cat@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] Respecting the Heron
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, "Anthony Taylor" <ajft1942@yahoo.com>, "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 8:03 PM
\r?\n> Well,
\r?\n> the paint and decals on my pre-1983 Ciocc San
\r?\n> Cristobal have held up just fine, but then again I'm
\r?\n> her original owner and I've taken very good care of
\r?\n> her.
\r?\n> My 1977 Raleigh Pro was a fine machine. If
\r?\n> the dealer hadn't talked me into a frame that was two
\r?\n> inches too big, I'd probably still be riding that bike.
\r?\n> The Campy Nuovo Record crank arms from my old Pro are
\r?\n> still in use on my Ciocc!
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Steve Whitting
\r?\n>
\r?\n> "The Ciocc Cat"
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Prairieville, Louisiana USA
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Website at http://ciocc-cat.angelfire.com/
\r?\n>
\r?\n> --- On Mon, 2/8/10, P.C. Kohler
\r?\n> <kohl57@yahoo.com> wrote:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> From: P.C. Kohler <kohl57@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Respecting the Heron
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, "Anthony
\r?\n> Taylor" <ajft1942@yahoo.com>
\r?\n> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 10:35 AM
\r?\n>
\r?\n> "Heresy - Sacrilege - and other
\r?\n> expletives!!!
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Wonder no more Dean - they were and are great bikes
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Where are you Peter Kohler - man the barricades there is a
\r?\n> non believer in
\r?\n> our midst!!!!
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Mike Mullett
\r?\n> Reading UK "
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Oh Mike, sometimes even I don't rise to the bait around
\r?\n> here. But now that you ask....
\r?\n>
\r?\n> I don't even like the notion that to be a "plain
\r?\n> ol Raleigh" is something to be sneezed at. Show me a
\r?\n> more classic or timeless or practical bicycle than a
\r?\n> Raleigh no.1/DL-1 roadster or a Raleigh Sports. Or a
\r?\n> Lenton Sports. John Lennon rode a Lenton, not a Quinn. So
\r?\n> there!
\r?\n>
\r?\n> But at the higher end, I'll match the workmanship of my
\r?\n> '48 RRA against ANY bespoke British frameset of its era
\r?\n> anyday. And at least it doesn't have those scrollie lugs
\r?\n> which make a racing bike look like a Victorian sewing
\r?\n> machine or bendy stays or other faddish nonsenses. Raleigh
\r?\n> chromework (theirs was the biggest chromeworks in Europe by
\r?\n> the way) was the finest in cycling or anywhere. And a stock
\r?\n> RRA with the delicious RRA specific components, all British
\r?\n> made, is a lot cooler than a British frame with a lot of
\r?\n> foreign made bits stuck on it to save a few bob in VAT. The
\r?\n> RRA pedal alone is one of the most sublimely beautiful,
\r?\n> practical and superbly made cycle component ever made. I
\r?\n> suspect a lot of clubmen distained the RRA simply because
\r?\n> they couldn't ever afford to buy one. And they sure
\r?\n> weren't clocking in time trial records
\r?\n> on one with an AC HUB gear like Booty did, now were they?
\r?\n>
\r?\n>
\r?\n> And I'll match the workmanship, design and weight of my
\r?\n> two SBDU frames against ANY Italian frame of the era.
\r?\n> Compare the finish, too. Heck, the headtube decal on my
\r?\n> '74 Colnago is on.. crooked for heavens sake! How many
\r?\n> Italian frames do you see with their original paint? It was
\r?\n> crap, pretty but still crap quality on almost all of them.
\r?\n> Paint you can read a newspaper through. I had paint lifted
\r?\n> off my Masi 3v with plain old tape! Not so with an SBDU
\r?\n> frame. And I won't even have you tally the race and
\r?\n> stage victories raked up by SBDU frames against ANY of their
\r?\n> era. How many framebuilders did the kind of engineering and
\r?\n> scientific tests and research the SBDU did? How many
\r?\n> framebuilders developed an entirely new frame material like
\r?\n> 753? And it was all done in house since, of course, Reynolds
\r?\n> was part of the same "rubbish" TI family.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Ah that feels much better now...
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Peter
\r?\n> Kohler
\r?\n> Washington DC USA