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----- this transfer set came into use with the 1974 model year -----

----- headlugs appear BOCAMA but my materials not showing a match for model designation bottom bracket shell BOCAMA pattern Ref. 5 seat lug BOCAMA pattern "T" both plate style laterals bridges likely ESGE Pletscher, may not be so marked, Agrati another producer for these laterals bridge...

No. If you measure any of the old ones, whether Campag, Juy, Maeda, Freres Huret, etc they are all noticiably shorter from pivot axis to lever end than are their downtube companions. Modern "bent" models may be a means of giving the rider more leverage/control without increasing the distance...

----- @non-fixie shall have information to share ;) -----

----- for readers with an interest in Brugelmann offerings thar be some back catalogues archived here - https://velo-pages.com/main.php?g2_itemId=6920 -----

----- this 1974 catalogue from the maker of AFA products, Poutrait-Morin, states that the plastic seal of that time be made of a material called "elastomere" and available in three sizes (see last image) inherited an AFA frame pump model 818 from me parents and discovered it to have a cracked...

----- always enjoy reading the reports of this wonderful event visited Bob in September of '01 and received a generous giro of his marvelous collection this was back when he was yet on Bainbridge Island after the tour he took us in one of his restored Volkswagens for a visit to Mr. Groman's...

----- 👍 ...an' lo she be neither demotic greek... 🤔 -----

----- wonder if steerer "markings" may not have been done intentionally but due to something inside the clamp which was used to hold the tube during construction... -----

----- ...the clearest case of kinesological perfection have ever seen...for a chupacabra... -----

----- perchance our framebuilder member @bulgie may see something here... -----

----- you mean to say that you have not always longed to have the top of the steerer poking into the underside of your chin/throat? ...must be some kinda weirdo...🫨 -----

----- am auld wreadin' the header had me thimkin' we were gonna see wunnuh them brightly coloured banana-shaped plastic thingamajigs...🤪 -----

----- thanks very much for sharing this find appears we are in the early eighties here headset looks to be Tange MA 60 there will be a clockface type date marking on the backside of the Weinmann 605 caliper arms the Sugino crank arms will have a date marking on their backsides dropouts...

----- Thank you! do you know the year Orbea opened its Portugal plant and what has been produced there? -----