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

Grannygrinder

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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":2r2nwu14 said:
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)
 
If you mean the brake levers, I believe they were the Euclid levers. You see one at the bottom of the below picture.
 
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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 :)
 
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