Originally Posted by
JohnDThompson
Nice bike
Those little paper tabs on the calipers are only for shipping, to prevent the barrel adjusters from coming out of the caliper arms when there's no cable installed to put tension on the system.
Yea, I took them off when I installed the calipers in 1985. Put them back on recently so they would not get lost. Everything on the bike looks new in spite of the mileage and I thought it added to the look. Maybe not.