[CR]Huret adapters to Campy ends...

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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:20:57 -0500
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Harvey M Sachs" <sachs@erols.com>
Subject: [CR]Huret adapters to Campy ends...

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A couple of weeks ago, someone posted a request for info on the adapters that allow mounting Huret Derailleurs on Campy-type ends. Last night, rummaging through the small parts bag, I think I found some info that will be useful.

The Huret DUO-PAR (and perhaps other models, but see below) has an upper swivel mount that is a hole with two short slots extending from it. They are parallel to the long axis of the derailleur body. The derailluer uses different washers with tangs and knobs to mate to different dropouts. The adapter washer for Campy ends has its tang (which engages the frame dropout) almost but not quite perpendicular to the knobs that engage the slots. The adapter for Huret ends has its tang almost (but not quite) in the same position as the knobs. I happen to have one extra campy-style washer/adapter.

Please note that other Huret derailleurs used other systems. I don't remember an adapter for the ALLVIT and its clones, but the design would have made it an easy thing to do, so I suspect there was one.

The JUBILEE came in two styles. One has a cast-in tang or stop designed to hang from campy and similar derailleur tabs. I don't remember how the other one is designed, but in the fuzzy recesses there is some sense that the other model was hard to adapt to campy-style fork ends. Be careful if Jubilees appear on eBay or ?? if you actually plan to use them.

harvey sachs

mcLean, Va (hope to complete work on a Gitane TdF and a Motobecane Gran Jubilee for a friend tonight. Both will be "adapted" with too many modern parts, but ought to give the sense of what they were...