Originally Posted by
qcpmsame
Remember, there is nothing foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently foolish person.
We all should have a tat of the Campag flying globe, or the oval, to salute Tullio for inventing the QR after he lost a race because his frozen fingers wouldn't grip the wingnuts when he flatted.
Bill
Apparently, Campagnolo didn't invent the quick release and didn't get stuck in the snow with frozen wing nuts.
https://janheine.wordpress.com/2014/...io-campagnolo/
That is the legend, but what is the real story of Campagnolo? Working with well-known cycling historian David Herlihy and other experts, we’ve pieced together the history of Campagnolo. Based on research in European archives, patent searches and contemporary accounts, the conclusions were published in a 19-page article in the Summer 2014 Bicycle Quarterly. The true story is different from the myth, but it’s no less fascinating...
...Back to the quick release: It appears that Campagnolo did not invent it at all. The story of the race in the snow is a myth. There was a snowy Coppa della Vittoria, but in a different year (1925), and Campagnolo isn’t mentioned in the race reports as a favorite in any of the Coppas della Vittoria of the 1920s.
The original patent for the quick release, said to date from 1930, does not exist. Later patents by Campagnolo are written very narrowly for improvements or special features of the quick release, indicating that he could not patent the cam-actuated quick release itself.