RE: [CR]Gransport vs Valentino. front Mech. Good Point

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From: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Gransport vs Valentino. front Mech. Good Point
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 19:03:23 -0700


Hugh Thornton writes:
>
> When most of us think Gran Sport, we think of the "real" Gran
> Sport that faded away after the introduction of Record, not
> the Nuovo Gran Sport stuff that came later. However, I
> thought the Nuovo Gran Sport front changer was a cheap and
> nasty version of the Record one -- was there a change at some
> point?

Catalogue n.17 ('73) lists the 1052/1, regular Record front changer, as an "alternate" within the GS gruppo. I do remember another GS front changer that was based on the Record, but with cheaper plating and stamped, rather than forged, parallelogram arms. I wanna say that was later, late-70s maybe?

I remember I made a frankenstein mech out of a Record and the stamped parallelogram arms from that GS, because they were longer than the forged Record arms. This was for a tandem with a wider-than-normal chainline, where the longer arms helped. That would have been in '79 I think, and I think the GS I took apart was current production then, or maybe recently discontinued but still in the pipeline.

Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA