Twisty Campag levers, did they excist or was it just a dream

[Grannygrinder]

Perhaps it was too much strong cheese, but I had a very strange dream last night. Spent about 6 hours in what used to be my LBS when I was a kid, chatting to the owner and drilling holes in components for him :shock:
Anyway it jogged a memory of some campag levers which had levers you could twist to change the lever profile. Bloody ugly things and I imagine they wouldn't have been very comfy in use. Light grey in colour, or was it just a dream :?:

 

[TheGreenRabbit]

No they were real, Bullet shifters I think they were called

 

[Crell]

No they were real, Bullet shifters I think they were called

Correct, Centaur and Olympus groupsets IIRC. Lots of pics on here, and show up quite frequently NOS for sale. They weigh close to 34 Kg each

They were also in a black/ very dark blue colour (Olympus I think)

 

[rienster]

If you mean the brake levers, I believe they were the Euclid levers. You see one at the bottom of the below picture.

 

[rienster]

Here with attachment

 

[Grannygrinder]

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Thats them. Why spoil such a beautiful clamp with such a butt ugly lever.
Nice to know i'm not going insane

 

[Crell]

What frame is that ? Interesting head tube. Is that a fillet?

 

[rienster]

Not sure, picture came from first flight. Here is a link:

http://www.firstflightbikes.com/1989_Denti.htm

 

[Crell]

Wow, that's some "interesting" filleting going on there.