I had never heard of the Mafac Tiger before your post but a Google search lead to quite a number of links. Learn something new every day. Also, it looks like it really should be MAFAC Tiger/Racer/etc as MAFAC stands for Manufacture Auvergnoise de Freins et Assessoires pour Cycle.
Who knew? Not me at any rate. http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/components/mafac1-comp.html -Jim On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Bill Lindsay <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mafac Racers are smaller than Paul Racers and the Compass brakes. Without > question if you are running 700x32 or thereabouts with fenders, Mafac > Racers can be had very affordably and are really fun to profile and > polish. But for 650Bx42 + fenders, Mafac Racers are not an option, right? > You need Raids which are much rarer, or the very rare and weird Tiger. > > On Thursday, December 4, 2014 12:38:52 PM UTC-8, Eric Norris wrote: >> >> Option E would be Mafac Racers, which aren't as pretty, but can be >> polished with some Simichrome and which have excellent stopping power. Last >> time I checked, even NOS Racers are fairly easy to find. >> >> --Eric N >> www.CampyOnly.com >> CampyOnlyGuy.blogspot.com >> Twitter: @CampyOnlyGuy >> >> On Dec 4, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Let your flag fly! It's always fun to think of reasons to put money in >> Mr Price's register. >> >> Compass brakes are *partially* made in the USA, but farther away from me >> than Chico ;-) . Also, there is no frame in existence that takes both the >> Compass brakes and Paul Racers* (they use different posts). So the only >> people that really have a choice between those two products are people who >> are about to specify a custom frame for 42mm tires and want braze-on >> centerpull brakes. That's not a lot of people. For me, the integrated >> rack (made by non-Americans at Nitto) is super attractive. The fact I can >> buy some super swank hardware to bling out my Mafac Racers is kind of fun, >> too. >> >> Bill-who-loves-to-buy-American-Lindsay >> >> *p.s. OK, I suppose that if you had a frame that you wanted to run >> center-mount center-pull brakes, you would have the choice between >> centermount Paul Racers as option A, and as option B you could buy Mafac >> Raid yokes on Ebay, and buy Compass brakes and cobble together your own set >> up. Option C would be to buy Mafac Raids on Ebay and upgrade the hardware >> from Compass (or use them stock). Option D is Dia Compe 750s, also not >> made in the USA. >> >> On Thursday, December 4, 2014 9:55:54 AM UTC-8, cyclot...@gmail.com >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm not a huge flag-waver, but Pauls are made in Chico, CA. >>> I know Taiwanese folks have families and kids and hobbies and mortgages, >>> but I guess I'd rather give my money to Mr. Price and support their local >>> economy. >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:19:34 AM UTC-8, BSWP wrote: >>>> >>>> And just like that, they're announced as available >>>> >>>> http://janheine.wordpress.com/2014/12/04/compass-centerpull- >>>> brakes-are-here/ >>>> >>>> Prices compare not-too-unfavorably to the Pauls. Very tempting. >>>> >>>> - Andrew, Berkeley >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
