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The Catalog of Reminiscence

The Invitation for Cycling by Mr.Gami

Part 95: Clement in 1977




Part 95 is the catalog of Clement in 1977.

There is a sentence 'dai 1902, 75 anni di esperienza' at the right side of front page. It might mean 'it is 75 year since foundation of 1902. So I suppose this catalog was issued on 1977. If it is misunderstanding, please let me know.

Most of cyclists who were my generation wanted to use Clement. However, the price was too expensive, hard to buy it. I checked the price of Clement Criterium which was made of cotton by Tomoda World Parts Catalog issued 1982. It was 9200 yen, third time of the price of Wolber International (3680 yen). It was out of my reach.
By the way, I supposed Clement was one of first class brand in Italy such as Campagnolo, Chineli. Later I knew the founder was French man. Clement disappeared 1990s at once, then recovered.

The 8 pages catalog which I introduce at here was offered by H. S who lives in Mie prefecture.

I show each page of catalog below. However, it might be hard to read it because of small image. So I prepared E-book. Advertisement which does not relate to this website would appear because of free service. But you can flip a page as real book, and enlarge the image. Please access from the link below.

http://www.adjustbook.com/doc/Index/show/us/6796/bk/11260






Page 1: Introduction of company





Page2: Introduction of track racing tire

SETA EXTRA is used for deciding match, suitable for wooden board and smooth surface of concrete. Recommended pressure is max 160 p.s.i.





Page 3: Introduction of road racing tire

SETA is made of cotton. It was supple, has high road-holding function for first class professional athletes. It is high grade tire which is out of my reach. I'm sorry that I haven’t experienced this high function.





Page 4: introduction of road racing tire

To comparison with SETA, STRADA is inexpensive. But I haven't used it also. STRADA 66 was used for Grand-Velo first generation which was put on the market in 1975 by Bridgestone.





Page 5: introduction of road racing tire for training

There are popular products for training. The price of ELVEZIA and VELTRO is 3500 yen on Tomoda World Parts Catalog.





Page 6: Wired on tire

Various size of WO tires such as BAMBINO (child bicycle), CICLOMOTORE(motor cycle) are introduced in this page. Black, white, and rubber side surface are on the line-up. I hadn’t used Clement, but National, Mitsuboshi, and Wolber.





Page 7: Rim cement and other new products

Rim cement in tube and can, high quality WO tire Gentleman which is similar function of tubular tire, and tubular tire Condor are introduced.






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