Mike (and all),
Know where to get these 3 speed freehweels? I'd prefer very good or even new as it'll be doing lotsa miles. I need one as I'll (finally) be building up a Torpado city bike soon. I have have most all the bits (frame, headbadge, and single unit bar/stem/levers) including the Campy Sport rear derailleur and single sided shifter. Even got the lock (with key !!!) that clamps to the seat stays. Oh ... I'm looking for a seat post clamp/collar to suit as well. The one's I've seen have rings on them but I'm not sure what style would suit.
Lemme know if you have either a good 3 speed freewheel or the seat post clamp/collar to sell.
Any tips for setting up a Campy Sport derailleur?
I've checked a few City Bikes on the wool jersey galleries ... if you know of other pics or galleries feel free to let us know as I'd like to get it looking mostly right. I've found restoring/refubishing most race oriented bikes to be quite simple compared to finding odd bits for these "overlooked" utility bikes.
ciao,
Ben Kamenjas Kensington, Australia
On 09/12/2009, at 6:56 AM, <classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org> <classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org
> wrote:
> Harvey Sachs ridicules the Campag Sport single roller rear
> derailleur. The Sport was perfectly good for the purpose for which
> it was designed, that is Italian "around town" bikes with three
> sprockets, typically 16-18-20. There must be thousands of such bikes
> on the streets of Italy today, many of them still running around
> with those 1950s three speed derailleurs. Trouble is that North
> Americans couldn't understand why the Sport wouldn't handle a much
> wider range of gears than it was designed for. It wasn't a cheap
> version of the Gran Sport but a derailleur aimed at a much different
> market. A market just about unknown in North America.
> Now the Gran Tourismo. That is probably the worst derailleur that
> Campagnolo ever made or perhaps anybody else for that matter.
>
> Mike Barry.
> Toronto, Canada.