Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
Both Campagnolo and Shimano were taken by surprise at the sudden success of Look's clipless pedals. Both companies marketed Look-built pedals under their own names while developing their own clipless designs (I have examples of both Shimano and Campagnolo badged pedals with "MADE IN FRANCE" on them). Campagnolo's first clipless design was SGR, and it was a flop. Shimano's actually worked well.
Based on what I've read, Shimanos were pure Look pedals with the Shimano name on them. The Campy Look pedal came in two varieties - The pure Look type with six wrench flats, and the Look pedal on a Campy spindle (two wrench flats).
Now before I get flamed, it seems that it was no holds barred in pedal at that time, so the above statement seems to hold in most cases, but not all. Especially with Campy. I have a growing collection on late '80s / early '90s campy parts. It's annoying trying to figure out what each is.... "It may be Chorus, except when Chorus was not Chorus, but it was Athena, except for first generation, which had this extra adjustment thingy..."
Thankfully all I really *need* is to identify C-Record from the 1986-1988 time frame for my machine. Which I had all sorted only to discover that Campy made saddles for a short period of time (early 1990s)... now I'm getting OCD about finding one.