Originally Posted by
Mark Kelly
That is a reference to the Campagnolo Deltas and is based on incompetent set-up and the original pads, which are utter garbage. If they are properly set up with modern pads these brakes are as powerful as any modern DP, combined with feel and modulation which is in another class entirely. The are also beautiful (and really, really heavy).
I've also used Mafacs and Weinemanns (centrepulls) and the Deltas are vastly superior to both. As for Modolo side pulls....
how would you have set them up in 1988 using "modern pads"? would the stock not have been "modern" at that time?
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