The year 1992 keeps kicking into my head, but I don't have anything specific to go on. I think they were part of the whole consolidation and sell-off of French bike companies of the late-80s and early-90s. If you archive your copies of BRAIN check in there. good luck, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives Vancouver, B.C.
On Sunday, Dec 18, 2005, at 15:11 US/Pacific, oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
> << By the way, is the demise of Simplex a special listmeister OT
> exemption or what? >>
>
> But I thought the date of Simplex's demise would be precisely 1983,
> thereby further reinforcing the marvelous wisdom of having chosen that
> cut off year! (OK, wishful thinking...)
>
>
>
> Dale Brown
> cycles de ORO, Inc
> 1410 Mill Street
> Greensboro, NC 27408 USA
> 336-274-5959
> http://www.cyclesdeoro.com
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com
> Giant, Specialized, Bianchi, Felt, Orbea, Litespeed, Kuota, Argon 18,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Bender-Zanoni <joebz@optonline.net>
> To: oroboyz@aol.com; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:22:20 -0500
> Subject: Simplex end
>
> I have a Simplex Foret rear derailleur. It is a well madeand very
> sturdy touring derailleur and a copy of the Suntour design. I believe
> it is designed to be indexed. This doesn't really help but anything
> that copied the Suntour design was clearly after January 1985 when
> Suntours patent (at least in the US) ran out.
>
> By gosh, I just spotted the coolest feature on this derailleur. One
> of the parallelogram pins is in fact threaded. Pull it out and the
> whole derailleur flops open for cleaning. Neat.
>
> By the way, is the demise of Simplex a special listmeister OT
> exemption or what?
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ
>
> oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
>
> > << http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
> >
> > So, what year, I wonder, did Simplex finally "bite the dust", "Hit
> the > skids", "go under the last time", " kick the bucket" "Go kaput"?
> > (Can we all now take our hats off and have a moment of silence?)
> >
> > Dale Brown
> > cycles de ORO, Inc
> > 1410 Mill Street
> > Greensboro, NC 27408 USA
> > 336-274-5959
> > http://www.cyclesdeoro.com
> > http://www.classicrendezvous.com
> > Giant, Specialized, Bianchi, Felt, Orbea, Litespeed, Kuota, Argon
> 18, > Colnago, Landshark, Townie and other exotica.
> > Member, board of directors, National Bicycle Dealers Association
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
> > To: Howard Darr <hdarr@localnet.com>; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Sent: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:24:38 +0000
> > Subject: Re: [CR]mystery simplex
> >
> > A cheap set from the late 1980s - these came out about year I think
>> before
> > Simplex introduced indexed gears at the 1989 Paris show...
> >
> > Hilary Stone
> >
> > Bristol, England
> >
> >> From: "Howard Darr" <hdarr@localnet.com>
> >> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:57:54 -0500
> >> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> >> Subject: [CR]mystery simplex
> >>
> >> I asked earlier this week what these were. Please, I was hoping to
>>
> > know.
> >
> >>
> >> 7205434984 = ebay #
> >>
> >> howard darr
> >> Clymer PA
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