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/
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