Originally Posted by
mkeller234
That looks just like a 70's Campy NR seat post clamp. I agree, it is a minor pain in the butt to adjust. One nice thing, you can really get just the right angle to your saddle with that type of system. It's a much finer adjustment than some of the other posts I have like an SR laprade.
Amen. I'm fussy about seat tilt and this is my favorite type of post. When I sold my '77 Pro Tour (in '07) I kept the seat post.
The seat cluster on that bike looks really nice. It reminds me of some Raleighs and other English built bikes.
Cecil Behringer called my Pro Tour a Rarreigh, a Raleigh with a Japanese accent. He also pronounced Dura Ace "Duracce" as the early DA was pretty much a copy of Italian designs.
I loved the ProTour but I'd bought it a little large and in 30 years I'd lost a little height. Also I had just gotten my Jack Taylor SuperTourist dialed in. So it was redundant and I sold it to a friend who had been born in '77.
When the December 1976 Bicycling arrived at our house, my wife phoned me at work to tell me that my next bike had just been introduced. She didn't know much about bikes back then but she knew what I wanted. I was working part time at a bike shop at the time so I got what was probably the 1st one in the midwest.
I've scanned the Gary Fisher road test;
http://bikesmithdesign.com/temp/ProTour1.jpg
http://bikesmithdesign.com/temp/ProTour2.jpg
BTW I liked the brazed on centerpull brakes so much I used them on several of my early frames.