Re: [CR]re: British derailleurs...and KOF efforts

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 20:19:33 +0100 (BST)
From: "Michael Butler" <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [CR]re: British derailleurs...and KOF efforts
To: "tom.ward@juno.com" <tom.ward@juno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050801.112850.15436.208915@webmail04.lax.untd.com>
cc: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

I always thought that Gian Robert were Italian. GB did have a collapsing parallelogram gear called the "Altenburger" made in Germany for them. Cyclo Benelux produced the Super 60 and variants as aparallelogram mech. Mick Butler Hunts. UK
> Wasn't the 'Gian Robert' (do I have that spelling
> right) brand of front and rear derailleur a product
> of Great Britain? My
> own wishful thinking would like to have seen a Cyclo
> built on double-parallelogram lines (did they even
> experiment?)...or a Gary Burgess (GB) -branded rear
> derailleur. Say, designed to match the Coureur 66
> brakes. Now that would have been urbane, in the
> visual sense!

Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.