Re: [CR]Re: Pinnacle?(or Worst Component?)

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PY-10)

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:44:31 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Pinnacle?(or Worst Component?)
References: <20010328151847.20069.qmail@web906.mail.yahoo.com>


Tom Dalton wrote:
>
> (snip) Simplex retrofrictions. The forward stroke
> worked like a friction lever, but the back stroke
> (when working against the derailleur spring) was
> assisted by a coil spring in the lever.

Not quite accurate in that the spring was actually a clutch and did not function as a spring. Very nice shifting action, but I had a couple of the springs break where they are bent at 90° at the end. Talk about a tough to find replacement part...

Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, California