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Shimano brakes, what vintage?? (6 posts)
|  Shimano brakes, what vintage?? | Grizfan
Nov 15, 2003 7:01 PM | | Bought these from a guy who picked them up on a trip to Japan, Shimano-600($20.) with some cool dura ace stamped pads. Curious what vintage they are? They are nutted style front and rear. I passed on the matching levers, wishing I had bought them. |
| additional?? | Grizfan
Nov 16, 2003 2:46 PM | | Seems odd that the cables run opposite of most Ive seen? |
| re: Shimano brakes, what vintage?? | t5rguy
Nov 16, 2003 11:43 PM | | Pre 1980, I'd say. I do remember the 'opposite' cable routing. |
| re: Shimano brakes, what vintage?? | eddie m
Nov 17, 2003 12:00 PM | | Those look like the brakes that came with the shifters and cranks with all the fancy engraving. The cranks had a 6mm self-extracting allen bolt, and the headset had an alloy locknut that required a special wrench. The shifters were on the down tube, and the brake levers were the old non-aero type. I bought a bike with all that in 1981. |
| look at the date code on the component | laffeaux
Nov 18, 2003 11:10 AM | | There is a date code on the component to tell you when it was manufactured. More here:
http://www.vintage-trek.com/component_dates.htm#shimano |
| Thanks for all the info....(NM) | Grizfan
Nov 18, 2003 6:31 PM | | |
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