Modolo brakes.

[bagpuss]

Some staggering prices for NOS various models .What's with the hype .

Please enlighten me .

 

[bikeworkshop]

No idea.
Retro Rubbish imo

Collectable value is rarely about function though, sometimes it's comparative quality, often it's rarity.

Modolos were light and kind-of-worked.

But the yay-sayers are like Brooks Saddle/xt thumbies/ brompton owners.

"Best Brake Ever" they chant

 

[juvela]

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whilst Modolo be both the family name and the company name when one gets back far eno' the products were sold as OMMAS (no relation to OMAS) brand -



this manufacturer catalogue page of 1983 illustrates the then current range of caliper brake models -



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[jim haseltine]

Their sintered brake blocks were a step above Campagnolo - in wet conditions. The levers and calipers not so, having a somewhat spongey feel in comparison to Record.

 

[Nob]

The Kronos where great for TT’s as small light & pretty aero but braking was useless but then in a TT it’s about going fast no slowing down..
I even went as far making a little article
https://www.iancammish.co.uk/modolo-kronos-cxde

 

[vtwinvince]

Where do America calipers fit in to the family tree?

 

[pigman]

Their sintered brake blocks were a step above Campagnolo - in wet conditions. The levers and calipers not so, having a somewhat spongey feel in comparison to Record.

Yeh, that's how I remember it

 

[vcballbat]

Mavic levers and calipers were rebranded by Modolo but these are the only ones I've ever seen showing Mavic and Modolo on my Gitane Olympic... must be worth a fortune

 

[Nob]

 

[jim haseltine]

Those are the sintered (I think they called them 'sinterized' or maybe 'synterized') blocks, the ones that worked. I think Hinault's Vie Claire team used Modolo brakes for a while.