Any idea what make & how old this is ?
02-27-09 | 12:56 PM
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I've just got one like that - sold as 1930's rear dynamo light. Same fitting but the bracket's missing on mine - only a metal "P" clip though, right? Still, it was cheap and fits in with the 1935 build I'm slowly working on!
02-27-09 | 06:21 PM
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I'm going to gut it and fit a heatsink and high power LED running from a lithium Ion battery, it should be brighter than a Dinotte !!
02-27-09 | 09:08 PM
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It's the taillight from the Campagnolo 50th Anniversary Cobalto gruppo. Only two of them were made. Check under the mounting clamp for a date code.
02-28-09 | 07:28 AM
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I like the Campy theory, except I think it's from the 1948 little known Mondo Touristo gruppo, intendede to challenge the French dominance of the Randonisti market.
02-28-09 | 07:45 AM
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Looks A LOT like my early 1900's cabide lamp! check out the copper/brass case on both, and the crystals, almost the same if you ask me, 'cept for the fact that my lamp is carbide powered I would have thought them to be a set! (yes, it has the glass lens on the front, just cant see it in the pics)
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02-28-09 | 08:19 AM
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The bulb is 12V, I suspect it might have originally been powered by a lead acid battery.
On closer inspection the light might not be at all suitable for LED conversion.
03-02-09 | 06:18 PM
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I've found a more suitable housing for a LED rear lamp, so rather than desecrate a piece of cycling history I'm going to go with that.
As some of the people on this thread seem to like the rear light, I wondered if it would be ok to offer it to them ?
Any advice on that ?
As some of the people on this thread seem to like the rear light, I wondered if it would be ok to offer it to them ?
Any advice on that ?
