REAR DERAILLEUR:
Campagnolo Super Record (modified) - Black anodized forged aluminum alloy body - aluminum alloy pulley cage plates - titanium pivot bolts - 13 to 28 tooth freewheel capacity / 28 tooth maximum total capacity - post 1976/1977 C.P.S.C. compliant with plastic safety shields on the adjustment screws (which were removed) - post 1977 second edition Super Record rear derailleur with "script" logo front plate / revised cage geometry - date code marked "PAT. 83" for 1983 - custom fitted Pino International, Ltd. (Pino Morroni) aluminum alloy cable adjuster and jamb nut - model 4001 or 0102018 : Carmichael Designs - "drilled" pulley wheels - Black anodized 6061/T6511 aluminum alloy - ten tooth design - NMB 6265 sealed cartridge bearings - width adjustable spacers ... [Correct as original, with the exceptions of my having installed a pair of Carmichael Designs factory "drilled" aluminum alloy pulley wheels in lieu of the standard Campagnolo model 930/A or 2302001 editions, and the replacement Super Record derailleur seen here is marked "PAT. 83" indicating a production date of 1983 whereas the original unit dated from the previous year, 1982. When this Pino Morroni bicycle unexpectedly came into my life, it just so happened that I had an NOS 1983 Super Record rear derailleur in my parts stores awaiting a proper project. Inasmuch as all of the original equipment which came affixed to this bicycle, and indeed all of the various and subtle build details of the frameset itself, were contemporary to the year 1983 or very close to same (...in addition to having a 1982 marked rear derailleur, the Gipiemme Sprint hubs also had date codes from November of 1982), I did not consider such a single year discrepancy to be historically inappropriate or unduly incongruous in this instance. In fact, I know many in the vintage velo community who would argue that a 1983 Super Record derailleur might even be more apropos given what I too often see as a blind adherence to an overly sanitized collector paradigm which seeks to inflict a rigorous code of conformity in component dating standards that in all honesty did not exist in the first place for the vast majority of 1970’s and 1980’s era bicycles when they were sold new. In any event, beyond removing the plastic safety shields from the upper and lower adjustment screws, proper replication of the singularly most unique and Pino specific aspect to be found on that 1982 Super Record derailleur necessitated that I modify the 1983 edition by drilling out its cable receptacle with a 13/64" bit and then threading same with a 6 mm x 1.00 tap in order to accommodate that alloy cable adjuster which I then swapped over from the original mechanism.]
