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 Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:36 am |
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| verktyg |
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| olivelo wrote: |
| it was the days when centre pulls stopped on racing bikes. these spidel/mafac LS2 sidepulls are quite common on ebay. the LS1s are the rare ones that just popped up for a year or so. they have a similar style to the centre pulls posted here.... |
olivelo, so what's the difference between Mafac LS1 and LS2 brakes?
I have a set of LS? on one of my early 1980s Andre Bertin bikes that look like these:
The brakes on your bike are less sculptured and more round like these:
Here's some more pictures on the Classic Rendezvous site:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/France/Mafac_main.htm
I've also seen Modolo brakes marked Spidel. It seems to me that components marked Spidel came mostly on high end performance bikes. Other models used the same parts with the standard brand logos - Stronglight, Simplex, Mafac and Maillard.
Campy introduced their sidepull brakes in 1969. A local shop in Berkeley, California was an early proponent of cycling here in the US. They imported bikes and components and they bought 50 sets of Campy side pulls when they were first announced. The first batch of brakes came unmarked without any Campy name or logo. In those days Campy side pulls were always in very short supply.
Holdsworth, Campy's distributor in the UK couldn't even get brakes for all of their team bikes until near the end of the 1969 racing season. By 1970 most pro teams were using Campy sidepulls but they remained hard to get items in the US until at least the mid 70s. In those days the alternatives for brakes on racing bikes in the US were Mafac centerpulls and Universal center and side pull brakes. From the mid 70s onward the Japanese started filling the demand for quality brakes.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:46 am |
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| verktyg |
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| sandranian wrote: |
| I meant cantilever centerpulls...like the ones on my Grand Tour. |
The bike appears to me to be more of a competitive model than one sold for touring.
I've seen pictures of racing bikes from years past with cantilever brakes but nothing in the past 30-40 years.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:28 am |
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| sandranian |
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I am completely screwed up...which comes from "skimming" posts...
I saw that the pictures were posted by Lofter...and thought that it was his new Grand Tour which he picked up last week. Clearly...I am mistaken!!!
Sorry for the confusion...erasing my last posts!!! |
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