Re: [CR]Aero parts question, borderline ot

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From: "Rick Chasteen" <rchasteen@kc.rr.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <NDBBJJFJAJDGLAHLLEFFEEJJCFAA.sbirmingham@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Aero parts question, borderline ot
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:56:18 -0600


Steve:

Are you sure it was meant to have a front derailleur? Many TT bikes don't.

By the way, who would have been riding for Raleigh USA, then? Steve Tilford, maybe?

Rick Chasteen, Kansas City


----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Birmingham
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 6:55 PM
Subject: [CR]Aero parts question, borderline ot



> I got a Raleigh time trial frame recently, and I'm puzzled by some of the
> setup.
> The bike seems to have been set up for Dura Ace Ax parts, but the puzzling
> bit is
> the front derailleur setup, or lack of one. There's a threaded mount where
> the
> brazeon should be, but there's no place to route the cable inside the frame.
> The
> brake and rear cables go through the frame but there's no hole for the front
> cable.
> Was there another device that might have been used here? like a tensioner or
> guide
> to keep the chain from coming off?
>
> I'm not sure, but I belive the bike is from about 83-84, maybe a couple
> years newer.
> I have a picture at
> http://www.mindspring.com/~sblackstone/raleighaerott.jpg

>

>

> Thanks,

> Steve Birmingham

> Lowell, Ma