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Originally Posted by Dirtdrop
I have Matthausers too, but they're the same length. The Package said size M. I believe that they made M, W and C, so maybe I got a mislabled package. The Kool Stops I have are the length that everybody sells for Mafacs these days, including Harris Cyclery. They say say that they fit both Campy and Mafac holders. That can't be because Mafac holders are longer. If you have a source for the correct length for Mafacs, please share! I've got Mafacs on three bikes. I've got Kool Stop mountain shoes on two of them. They work great, but I don't like the look.

I case you haven't guessed, M was for Mafac, W was for Weinmann and C was for Campagnolo.
I got mine from one of the ebay sellers I regularly use here in the UK, I can't remember clearly now but it could well have been ebay username "Carltoncycles" - £8.00 for a set of four blocks, New Old Stock. I actually bought them for a pair of Campagnolo Record side-pulls but when the brakes arrived the original Campag pad were fine, so I put them in the Mafac shoes instead. IIRC, they were described as to fit 'Mafac, Campagnolo and similar brakes'. I don't know if there are any more available from this source, there was only one item listed in the ebay auction and that was two or three years ago.

I might still have the card off the top of the bag somewhere - if I have and can find it, I'll check the model. I think they would have been too long for the Records anyway, even though I sent details of the brake in a message to the seller when I bought them!
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