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01-19-21, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by bruce19

I had a MAZA (not Masi) frame that I outfitted with Campy Athena friction shifters. The frame was Italian and TSX. And, I remember Miele from Canada.

I think your memory is a bit off. Campy Athena came out in 1988, and it had downtube indexed shifters. I had in on a Schwinn Paramount OS I bought in 1989. It was supposed to be the first Campy group to get indexing right. It didn’t, and I replaced it with Dura Ace.

You may be referring to the shifters as friction because they were downtube shifters as opposed to grifters, but they were indexed, just poorly so.

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