Richard Cielec wrote:
>Curiosity piping-up here on the nature of the stalking horse of
>manufacturing standardisation.
>
>My early 70's International has the QR's integrated with the brake
>lever yet, no adjuster in the lever. Would the cable hangers have
>been the style also with the QR's (ie: redundant) or would the
>hangers have included adjusters only, no QR?
>
Adjuster only in front. If memory serves, they usually had no
adjuster in back. The extra skinny adjusting barrel that was
(uselessly) supplied with Simplex down tube shifters would fit into
the rear housing stop to give you a bit of adjustment for the rear
brake.
Sheldon "http://retroraleighs.com" Brown
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