Re: [CR] interesting early Campagnolo tools...

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:11:41 -0500
From: Ancient Cycles <ancientcycles@gmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] interesting early Campagnolo tools...


the tool might appear identical to your later version in design and function but the logo seems to be of the earlier type..

compare the photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ancientcycles/5381494176/in/set-72157625888647890/ and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ancientcycles/4485552882/in/set-72157625641310846/

early tools like these are rarely seen and not particularly sought after but I find them very interesting.. especially when you can hear a bit about their original owner's history.. thanks Ted !

andrei padlowski brooklyn, ny
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On 01/22/2011 10:05 PM, Ancient Cycles wrote:
> I was surprised to see a very early Campagnolo dishing gauge offered
> alongside two much newer freewheel wrenches on ebay..
> (also very much dismayed to have been outbid)
>
> see
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/5s9sbp6

The dishing tool appears identical to the one that came in my tool kit I bought new, directly from Campagnolo in 1984. The freewheel tools are also identical, and I remember being disappointed because they were the old version of the tool, designed to fit old 2-prong Regina freewheels, rather than the new tool with the helical prongs for Campy's own freewheel which had recently been released.

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Appleton WI USA