Re: [CR] Old Simplex ID?

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Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:39:57 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
Cc: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] Old Simplex ID?


Some Simplex TdF derailleurs were in fact marked "Tour de France", but most weren't.

Kurt Sperry Bellingham, Washington USA

2009/3/10 John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>:
> At 10:33 PM 10/03/2009 -0400, Tim Fricker wrote:
>>Hey gang!
>>
>>Anyone care to peek at my blog:
>>
>>http://spokesofawheel.blogspot.com/2009/03/another-bicycling-artifact.htm l
>>
>>And chime in on what model this old Simplex derailleur is?   And poke a round
>>the blog while you're there.  You might enjoy.
>
> That would be a Simplex Tour de France, fairly late vintage. They were
> popular in the early 1950s, but I don't recall them actually being
> inscribed "Tour de France". I have a couple of older ones without the bla ck
> and gold decoration. One says just "Simplex" on the arm and the other
> "Simplex JUY BIISGDG" or something like that.
>
> John Betmanis
> Woodstock, Ontario
> Canada