[CR]pirate applications for prestige parts

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:38:58 -0500
To: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
From: "Mark Stonich" <mark@bikesmithdesign.com>
In-Reply-To: <200410291759.KAA19580@cascade.cs.ubc.ca>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]pirate applications for prestige parts

At 10/29/2004 10:59 AM -0700, Donald Gillies wrote:
> Here are some pirate applications for prestige parts :
>
>prestige rear derailleur - source of jockey wheels for high-end
> Simplex SLJ mechs. not a good source for cable hangers.
>
>prestige shifters - source of barrel adjusters for raleigh rear
> centerpull cable stop on 1970's nottingham bikes.
>
>prestige shifters - can be turned around and stripped of levers to
> make a half-decent downtube cable stop (seen on a
> bike in paris, france, march 2004)

prestige front derailleur - source of braze on cable stops, way back when framebuilding supplies were hard to source here in the midwest. http://bikesmithdesign.com/fittings/SimplexCableStop.jpg

I also used 4 of the two bolt front clamp halves to attach a kiddie stoker BB shell to the rear seat tube of my '64 Gitane Tandem

Mark Stonich;
BikeSmith Design & Fabrication LLC
http://bikesmithdesign.com