Re: [CR] RALLY vs the world

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Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 08:26:33 -0700
From: "Bob Freitas" <freitas1@pacbell.net>
To: <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] RALLY vs the world


What ever Patent Suntour held it was enough for Campagnolo to retreat back to just putting a long cage onto an existing dérailleur. The design of both the Suntour and Rally had the body at a 9 o'clock-3 o'clock orientation while Shimanos design was more of a 10 o'clock-4 o'clock orientation. Jerry points out a Simplex advantage and since I an not that familiar with Simplex or its history, I have a question. When did Simplex first use an upper sprung pivot? I know that was a design feature of the original Campagnolo Gran Sport in the early 1950s. In regards to the Spense Wolf long arm conversions he also added the top pivot from the Campagnolo Sport dérailleur on some of them for an extreme hot rod touring unit . This long arm conversion was always used with a wide range front chairing configuration(always TA as I remember)

BOB FREITAS who replaced 1.000,000 plastic Simplexes back in the day but not in
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