Originally Posted by
Trakhak
I remember vividly the shock when a member of our local bike club showed up to a ride in the fall of 1964, proudly showing off his recently purchased top-of-the-line Atala, equipped with the first truly complete Campagnolo gruppo any of us had ever seen: Campy was now making brakes! And those brakes were, astonishingly, side pulls! Heresy!
it was a long time ago but not that long, the Campagnolo brakes made it into very limited release in 1968. The first run having no identification on the arms, there were some that had a formed steel arc with Campagnolo stamped in.