Re: [CR]timeline re: Simplex Competition rod-actuated front changer?

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Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:19:13 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]timeline re: Simplex Competition rod-actuated front changer?
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Peter Brueggeman wrote:
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> CR, could someone please advise the year Simplex started using ....
> 1) the plastic knob on its Competition rod-actuated front changer?
> 2) the black/gold emblematic decoration on the rod pivot point of this Competition
> rod-actuated front changer?


>From memory (fallible): circa 1957. Anyone?

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California http://www.velo-retro.com (timelines, reprints and t-shirts)

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