Vintage Components - Modolo Brakes

On this page: Flyer complete brakeset | Professional black lever set | Equipe calipers | Speedy silver levers | America brake lever | Modolo tandem brake levers (1 lever operates 2 cables) | Rocky Cross cantilever calipers | Professional lever bar clamp | Modolo brake lever pieces | Replacement non-aero brake lever gum hoods

And: Vintage Modolo brake ad

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The parts maker Modolo has been around a long time, Adamo Modolo having started the firm in 1952. The company is headquartered in Conegliano, in northeast Italy.

Modolo was originally dedicated to making parts for post-war Italian consumer bikes. In 1976 Adamo's son Domenico and his wife Serena began managing the firm. They took it in an entirely different direction. Instead of chasing the low-margin economic parts trade, Domenico, a capable industrial designer with a degree in mechanical engineering, began designing high-end parts.

The first product of that change, the Modolo Professional brake set, was an immediate hit. Shown at the 1977 Paris and Milan bike shows, the brakeset's superb design and workmanship made these brakes the go-to stopper for anyone not wanting to pay the big bucks for Campagnolo brakes.

In a short time, Modolo began offering that brakeset in different finishes at different prices. But all offered the same high performance.

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Modolo Flyer complete brakeset. Used, $250.00/set

• Modolo Flyer calipers are hot-forged and heat-treated.
• The cables can either routed aero, under the bar wrap, or conventional exposed style.
• We have new, genuine Modolo anatomic replacement brake hoods in stock to fit these levers posted here.

Front view of the levers.

If you need replacement hoods for either these levers or other Modolo or vintage Campagnolo levers, we also have a superb aftermarket hood available. You can see them here.

Here's the other side of the levers.

Top view

The bar clamps.

Close-up of the lever clamp, showng possible aero cable routing.

The Modolo cables & ferrules with "Elephant" brand housing.

The Modolo Flyer calipers

The front caliper

The back of the front caliper

The rear caliper

The back of the rear caliper

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Modolo Professional black lever set. Used, $200.00/for the set

If you need replacement hoods for either this lever or other Modolo or vintage Campagnolo levers, we have a superb aftermarket hood available. You can see them here.

We discovered that these levers have right & left hoods after we photographed them separately

Though the hood is certainly not new, the lever is in wonderful condition

A side view

Here's the other lever.

Here's the second lever turned around.

Front view

Looking inside the second lever.

And the top of the lever.

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Modolo Equipe calpiers without pads - Lightly used, $50.00

Part# BR-15-cap

We have lots of brake pads of various kinds in stock, including sinterized Modolo pads. If you would like some pads to go along with these calipers, please, just ask.

Lovely condition. Pads of all sorts available.

And from the back.

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Modolo Speedy brake levers, silver. Used, $50.00

Non-aero.

Levers are in wonderful condition. Hoods are showing their age, but still very servicable. We do stock aftermarket compatible hoods.

And from another angle. They still look very good.

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Modolo America single brake lever used, $50.00

This has an AME anatomic right hood.

From the front

On its side

And the other side

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Modolo tandem brake levers with anatomic gum hoods. New. $100.00

One of these levers will pull two cables and the other lever is a normal single-cable lever. The usual set-up is for the dual cable lever to operate both a rear hub brake and a rim brake.

Nicely finished, with anatomic hoods.

From the side.

And looking into the lever you can see that it will accomodate two cables.

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Modolo Rocky cantilever calipers with sinterized brake pads. New, $200.00 for the set

• Produced in the 1980s
• Designed for cyclocross bikes.

All the parts are there, including spare straddle cables.

And after almost four decades, they are still new, in the box.

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Modolo Professional brake lever clamp. Used, $35.00/each

To secure the lever to the handlebar

Here's the lever clamp turned over.

Back of the strap

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Modolo Professional brake lever pieces. Used, $15.00/each

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Soma replacement gum hoods that will work on non-aero Modolo brake levers. New, $20.00

They also work on classic Campagnolo Record/Super Record & SunTour Superbe non-aero levers.

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Here's a vintage Modolo brake ad:

This ad should date back to the late 1970s or early 1980s when Bernard Hinault was at his peak.