Charlie Young wrote:
>
>I recently purchased a Benelux Tourist Mark 8 rear
>derailleur and would like to know the approximate date of
>introduction. The seller has another one up on eBay at the
>present:
>
><http://ebay.com/<blah>
I bought mine probably in 1959 or '60. Like the Mark VII, these came
in different versions for 4- and 5-speed freewheels.
>While it came with the clamp-on fitting for the shift lever,
>no lever was supplied. Does anyone have an appropriate Cyclo
>Benelux lever kicking around? Need not be NOS.
If you have as warped a sense of humor as I do, you could use a SRAM "ESP" type GripShift, which should index correctly with this unit!
The appropriate shifter has a rather larger cable drum than those intended for parallelogram derailers.
Sheldon "That Brings Back Memories" Brown
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