I removed a set like this from a bike in Germany a couple years ago. Horrible painful things. They went straight in the bin.
No doubt they're terrible. Just interesting as an odd tangent in bike history.
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I removed a set like this from a bike in Germany a couple years ago. Horrible painful things. They went straight in the bin.