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> Darryl Mataya writes:
>
> > I'm looking for Delta brakes instruction sheet (late model). All these years of looking for NOS
> > brakes paid off, but I've never actually installed a pair. If you have an actual booklet, I'm
> > willing to purchase, but a photocopy or other resource would be helpful too. Yes, I'm sure I
> > could figure it out, but I always collect the written materials if possible.
>
> I'm not sure what it is you want to find in an instruction sheet. Just take the brake apart, clean
> and grease the mechanism. There isn't much to it but the parts are small as you can see from the
> pictures at:
>
>
http://www.campyonly.com/roadtests/delta.html
>
> You might also fine interesting the discourse that went on here a few years ago:
>
>
http://yarchive.net/bike/brake_leverage.html http://yarchive.net/car/porsche_vw_beetle.html
>
> Jobst Brandt
[email protected] Palo Alto CA
Jobst,
Thank you for the links. I had read some of those Delta discussions at the time. The VW/Porsche
thread is very useful (and I'm not done reading yet). This is precisely why I also like to collect
written material that accompanies notorious technology. My Delta's will be mounted for display on a
bike with contemporary relics of the C-Record era (high-flange hubs, semi-aero rims, "aero" seat
post). In another 10 years it will be quite instructive for any student of design, technology,
and/or equipment marketing to study this machine and determine what the goals and affects were. I
think it will look beautiful and silly at the same time. But then again I think a bicycle frame made
from titanium merged with carbon looks particularly silly today.
-Darryl Mataya