Re: [CR]Bar end shifters

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From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 10:15:17 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Bar end shifters
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 8/2/2 1:39:09 PM, eurocycle@hotmail.com writes:
>I have bar-end shifters on 3 of my bikes & I was wondering if anyone knows
>
>this: Were there any racers during the late 70's or early 80's that used
>
>bar-end shifters? Since Shimano, Suntour, Simplex & Campagnolo all had
>them.
>I have only seen videos & pictures with downtube shifters. If not, what
>
>would the main reason be that they were not used?

they wee pretty much gone bu the late 70s but in the 50s and 60s they were used, miostly by sprinters. Rudi Altig used them as I remember as did Mario Basso. But they were outnumbered by DT levers. Phil Brown The marine layer has returned in NoHo, Ca Wanna see my neighborhood? http://www.NoHoArtsDistrict.com