Equipment/Product Review (1974) CAMPAGNOLO Super Record group
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Equipment/Product Review (1974) CAMPAGNOLO Super Record group
...and its new super friends, Nuovo Gran Sport and Rally rear derailleurs.
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So there in print is the tale of the vaporware ti axle hubs.
Kossack was a character.
We dismissed much of the Super Record group, The headset was popular, less rust to counter when riding along the coast.
The pedals and bottom bracket flexed too much. If one wanted ti, a Teledyne spindle was solid in the center region, still accepted 1/4" bearings, slightly stiffer.
For the seatpost, the prior Superleggero post was essentially as light, cheaper.
You want a lighter rear mechanism? Arnold Industry aluminum pivot bolts.
Kossack was a character.
We dismissed much of the Super Record group, The headset was popular, less rust to counter when riding along the coast.
The pedals and bottom bracket flexed too much. If one wanted ti, a Teledyne spindle was solid in the center region, still accepted 1/4" bearings, slightly stiffer.
For the seatpost, the prior Superleggero post was essentially as light, cheaper.
You want a lighter rear mechanism? Arnold Industry aluminum pivot bolts.
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The campy rally rear derailleur was not very good particularly given the price. Plus the first gen version of this was prone to breaking.
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Originally Posted by repechage
So there in print is the tale of the vaporware ti axle hubs.
Kossack was a character.
Kossack was a character.
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Originally Posted by repechage
So there in print is the tale of the vaporware ti axle hubs.
Kossack was a character.
We dismissed much of the Super Record group, The headset was popular, less rust to counter when riding along the coast.
The pedals and bottom bracket flexed too much. If one wanted ti, a Teledyne spindle was solid in the center region, still accepted 1/4" bearings, slightly stiffer.
For the seatpost, the prior Superleggero post was essentially as light, cheaper.
You want a lighter rear mechanism? Arnold Industry aluminum pivot bolts.
Kossack was a character.
We dismissed much of the Super Record group, The headset was popular, less rust to counter when riding along the coast.
The pedals and bottom bracket flexed too much. If one wanted ti, a Teledyne spindle was solid in the center region, still accepted 1/4" bearings, slightly stiffer.
For the seatpost, the prior Superleggero post was essentially as light, cheaper.
You want a lighter rear mechanism? Arnold Industry aluminum pivot bolts.
and bolts, and aluminum dome nuts on my brake calipers (4 nuts per caliper). Everything else was too costly for me. The balance of weight savings for me, was with wheels, tires and drillium
. I got enough crap for the drillium, racing in the Northeast, that I raced with a (black anodized, of course) bell on my bike for a while
*. I got free Shimano stuff in 1976, so didn't need the Super Record, and later that year stopped racing/riding completely.I never owned a single SR component until they became C&V.
*I also drilled an aluminum kickstand full of holes, but was too unsure of how much it would have mattered, to compete with it mounted...
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04-08-20, 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnDThompson
The Campagnolo titanium hub axles were not complete vaporware; they were never marketed widely, if at all, but sponsored teams got them, and apparently Bicycling magazine got some for their review.
That is vaporware to me.
