I think it was the 1983 Gitane team bikes which didn't use Campagnolo, the brakes were Modolo. I can't remember the others parts off the top my head but probably a mix of Stronglight, Maillard, Simplex etc.
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I think it was the 1983 Gitane team bikes which didn't use Campagnolo, the brakes were Modolo. I can't remember the others parts off the top my head but probably a mix of Stronglight, Maillard, Simplex etc.
I do like the look of the mid 80s Modolo (or Mavic) brakes, they have a distinctive aesthetics that is different from Campagnolo, but the later brakes look less good though. I still have a pair of the Speedy somewhere, I put them on a bike for a short time but I changed back to my Campagnolo Super Records. I seem to remember Modolo used a different method of attaching the calipers to the centre bolt compared with Campagnolo.
I also have 2 pairs of NOS as new brown hoods, the ones that fit the Master Pro/Speedy etc levers and pre-date the anatomic style hoods. One pair is natural rubber and the other is synthetic rubber.
I also have 2 pairs of NOS as new brown hoods, the ones that fit the Master Pro/Speedy etc levers and pre-date the anatomic style hoods. One pair is natural rubber and the other is synthetic rubber.
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I've got a couple of pairs of the Mach 1 brakes, Sachs did a deal (or took them over) with Modolo and put it pretty much the same brakes but with better finishes
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What does surprise me about the whole 80/90s decline in these french and Italian operations is that they didn't rationalize, or at least cooperate more, combining forces to produce groupsets. Galli was a fine example, having nearly a complete group.
Perhaps the cost of tooling up and design for an ergo shift system was just too much? I know that Campagnolo produced the first levers for the Sachs groupset, perhaps that was a mistake? I've not seen much written, nor researched on the decline of companies like Galli/Ofmega/Sachs Huret/Simplex et al. It seems shrouded in mystery.
Working in engineering these past 30 years I've an appreciation of how a company can do well, even in a niche European scenario, and also how and why they fail. Where there were a good few dozen top end component manufacturers we now have the 'big three', and given Campagnolos lacklustre design output over the past couple of years I'm not sure we won't be down to two before the decade is out.
Perhaps the cost of tooling up and design for an ergo shift system was just too much? I know that Campagnolo produced the first levers for the Sachs groupset, perhaps that was a mistake? I've not seen much written, nor researched on the decline of companies like Galli/Ofmega/Sachs Huret/Simplex et al. It seems shrouded in mystery.
Working in engineering these past 30 years I've an appreciation of how a company can do well, even in a niche European scenario, and also how and why they fail. Where there were a good few dozen top end component manufacturers we now have the 'big three', and given Campagnolos lacklustre design output over the past couple of years I'm not sure we won't be down to two before the decade is out.
I reckon companies like Sunrace and Microshift will become big players within the next 20 years. At the moment those in the know see them as a good value, competent alternative but the industry and consumers with money see them as cheapies. I liken this with car brands like Hyundai and Kia. Twenty years ago these were driven by frugal pensioners. The journalists rated them as decent mechanicals but with cheap finishing and poor residuals. Now they're mixing it with the leading brands
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