I know this is barely C&V but in light of the recent classic MTB thread it seemed relevant.

I recent picked up a 1st year GT Zaskar and I was surprised to find that both the rear U-brake and the hubs were Campy. I'm pretty sure they weren't original, and from the mishmash of parts on the bike I think it was built up from a bare frame. From what I can tell the Campy parts are from the Euclid group based on this catalog:

https://www.andysbikes.com/articles/euclid/index.html

I basically bought this bike just for the frame so I'm probably going to sell off most of the components, but I'm curious if these Campy parts have any following. I'm kind of amazed how rarely you run into the stuff, especially since Campy offered a few comprehensive groups for a number of years, but it seems like it just fell off the face of the earth. Does anyone collect or use this stuff? It is all stockpiled in some warehouse somewhere? Was it melted down to make Fiat carburetors?

Ray

One of Campy's failures.

The Euclid stuff is big and clunky. The U brake works well on an old Peugeot mountain bike I have. That's a Euclid headset in my avatar.

Another Euclid headset, the steel version:



I have quite a lot Campa MTB stuff in use. Among it Euclid stuff. It is durable, but heavy. Looks heavy too. Euclid and Centaur are the high end early Campa MTB groupsets. The earlys are the burly ones. Later Campagnolo introduced RecordOR and Icarus. In particular ROR can go steep. The brakes of the later groupsets are praised by many.

which gruppo did the cantilever brakes come from ?

o, nevermind.. looks like record OR..
i think i have a set of those