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Old 02-03-11, 08:39 PM
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Seriously elegant brake levers
I bought these on eBay a couple weeks ago, and just received them. I have a lot of brake levers, but I think that these are the most beautifully shaped, and detailed with such minimal elegance. Modolo/Mavic from the early 80s, which seems, to me, a sort of high water mark for componentry:

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I'd like to get my HANDS on a pair of those

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Yup.... bicycle parts as art.
Very nice

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WOW, hoods look great to, i like the sparce detailing
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