Classic & Vintage - Campy parts identification

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Victorinox
04-17-06, 10:32 AM
I just bought a bike (cinelli lugs) from, I thinck, the late eighties. It seems that there's not just one campy group mounted on it, but a mix of different campagnolo parts. Take a look at these pictures. Can somebody help me identifying these components (crankset, bottombracket, headset, brakes, brakelevers, gearlever and frontgear). No campy rear derailleur was mounted, so I can't show you a picture of that.
Let me know what you think that the original gruppo was.
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/5797/bottombracketlarge4kt.jpg
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/5209/brakeleverslarge3ds.jpg
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/8297/brakeslarge9mo.jpg
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/6720/cranksetlarge1ab.jpg
http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/6623/frontgearlarge5uh.jpg
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/6279/gearleverslarge7vs.jpg
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/3527/headsetlarge8ox.jpg
dannyg1
04-17-06, 01:48 PM
Crankset looks to be Athena.
Brakes: Victory.
Shift Levers: C record
Brake Levers: C record
Front Der.: Victory
I'm unsure of the headset, could be any of the above and throw Chorus into that as well.
Victorinox
04-17-06, 02:59 PM
Ain't it possible that the front derailleur is a c-record? And why are there holes trilled in the front of the brake levers?? I've seen the same model without these holes (so probalby it ain't the same).
I have a C record headset that looks similiar but is alloy (and noticably so),
I'm guessing victory on the HS.
Marty
I haven't ever figured out how to tell with the headsets. I have a supposed C-Record, and a supposed Chorus, and they look identical to me.
The bottom bracket is a gran sport, or by this vintage, a Victory.
The brake levers don't look to me to be a set - the one with the white hood seems to have an elongated hole. If there is an engraved +/- symbol on the hole, this is an early C-Record lever. The other one is a chorus/athena/something else, depending on the year.
The brakes are Victory, as danny sez.
The front derailleur isn't c-record. C-record has an outer parallogram arm that is milled from a single piece of aluminum, with nearly squarecut edges, and a flat outer plate. This arm looks to be steel to me (right?). The steel one is hollow behind, and stamped. That would be a lower grade one. The Chorus derailleur like this has a cast aluminum arm with a ridge cast on the inside of the arm.
It looks to me that the cranks are painted silver, no?
What does the rear derailleur look like?
I hope those gouges in the headset weren't from using a screwdriver. They look real ugly. Old Campy headsets in good cond fetch pretty large sums of money. Good luck
Tim
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