Re: [CR]front derailleur braze on...

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:02:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: <smwillis@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]front derailleur braze on...
To: gabriel l romeu <romeug@comcast.net>, "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


http://thebikestand.com/campearlyftder.jpg not a great picture but it is one.
>From: gabriel l romeu <romeug@comcast.net>
>Date: 2007/04/10 Tue PM 09:45:11 CDT
>To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]front derailleur braze on...
>I remember, but i don't quite recall...The frame i am working on, a late
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>60's early 70's Raleigh, has a cable braze on on the down tube designed
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>as a cable housing stop cupping down to the bottom bracket. somewhere,
>in the dark recesses of my mind, i remember that there were front
>dérailleurs that had the other end housing stop integrated with the
>dérailleur (like rear dérailleurs).
>Of course, this was the late 60's and memories are rather 'fuzzy' from
>that time period.
>Did this style of FD in fact exist and are there any good pictures that
>shows both this mechanism and the cable routing?
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>--
>gabriel l romeu
>riding weather with wind as a subplot in
>chesterfield, new jersey usa
http://studiofurniture.com Ø http://journalphoto.org ±
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