Re: [CR]Re: history rewritten on Versus TV

(Example: History:Ted Ernst)

Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:41:40 -0600
From: "Mitch Harris" <mitch.harris@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: history rewritten on Versus TV
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On 7/20/07, Jan Heine <heine94@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Do you have an e-mail address for Bob Roll? Then I'll gladly tell
> him that derailleurs were invented in Great Britain around 1900 -
> before Tullio Campagnolo was even out of diapers - popularized in
> France by Joanny Panel in the 1910s, adopted by French cyclotourists
> through the 1920s and finally permitted in the Tour de France in
> 1937. Racers back then mostly used the Osgear Super Champion.
>
> Tullio Campagnolo's "back-pedal" derailleur was invented sometime in
> the 1930s, but used widely by racers only during the second half of
> the 1940s.
>
> The parallelogram derailleur seems to have been invented that year

Which year?

by
> Nivex, and Tullio introduced his first Gran Sport in 1949, which
> indeed created the shape that most derailleurs use to this day.

Mitch Harris
Little Rock Canyon, Utah