I used to think Huret sucked. Back in my Campy only days. Then one day I rode and Alex Singer with a long cage jubilee and guess what - it blew away Campy. Why? Because the cage pivots around the center of the upper pulley.
With Campy, shifting onto the smallest cog in the rear requires luck. All about the chain gap stuff that Frank Berto was writing about years ago but which I tended to block out of my mind.
Campy really blew it when the came out with their Gran Sport deraillieur in 1951. If they had made the upper pivot where it should have been, countless races would have been won by the best sprinter instead of the second best sprinter when the top dog dropped the chain.
Huret actually made some really great stuff. The Huret Lux deraillieurs are very dependable and their geometry works. Then after Lux came Jubilee. All in all, a very repectable history.
Mike Kone in Boulder CO
> Donald Gillies wrote:
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\r?\n> > Let's talk about Huret for a moment. Who among us is a Huret Bigot ??
\r?\n> > Have you ever stripped off campy parts so that you could install some
\r?\n> > Huret parts ??
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\r?\n> Almost. I stripped the SunTour Superbe derailleurs off a bike so I could
\r?\n> install Huret and Simplex (darn Jubilee FD clamp broke).
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\r?\n> > Do you still love the shifting on your Schwinn Varsity?
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\r?\n> Well, the Allvit is a different matter. I still have three Duopars in
\r?\n> service here (one on my all-weather commuting bike), and the bike
\r?\n> mentioned above has a lovely Titanium "Success" derailleur that shifts
\r?\n> like a champ with Simplex Retrofriction levers:
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\r?\n> http://www.os2.dhs.org/
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\r?\n> -John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
\r?\n> Appleton WI USA