A Simplex dropout that has been tapped but not ground for a stop will take an old Shimano Crane or Titlist just fine. Those derailleurs had a self-contained pivot stop/upper spring assembly that didn't need a specifically placed stop on the derailleur tang of the frame. DF
> After yesterday's morning ride, a friend asked me over to his house to
show
> me a bike he had rescued from the dumpster. When I offered to buy it from
> him, he gave it to me. He's the one that sold me the shop-built Proteus
and
> has a small Roberts he'd like to sell someone, someday. He rides a
> Lightspeed...
>
> It is a pretty beat up Peugeot PX-10 from 1976 or so (from the decals),
with
> the serial number plate under the bottom bracket (1122678) and decomposing
> French Reynolds sticker on the downtube (not the seat tube).
>
> It has some of the original parts on it, like the Brooks Professional
small
> rivit saddle, Simplex steel microadjusting seatpost, black plastic-tipped
> steel Simplex shift levers, Mafac Competition brakes with half-hood
levers,
> Stronglight 93 cranks (52/45) and Competition headset.
>
> The wheels have been replaced with 27" UKAI clincher rims on odd hubs -
maybe
> you guys could help me identify them ? My first guess is Weyless. These
hubs
> are sealed bearing with a black/silver/black ringed sticker around the
> center. They have remarkably bulky black and silver quick-releases with
> stubby curly wire loop levers. All the spokes that weren't replaced with
SS
> spokes are rusted badly. Whoever had it last appears to have broken a lot
of
> 15G straight-gaged drive-side spokes.
>
> Here's my real problem with getting this on the road again - it has
Simplex
> dropouts, at least in the back, and the derailer hanger is threaded but
round
> with no B-tension screw stop at all. Whoever messed with it last put
SunTour
> Cyclone MkII (GT) derailers on the bike, and the rear one doesn't look
like
> it could possibly work, at all.
>
> What rear derailer should I use ? Not the nasty Simplex red-labels, I
hope !
> Can I fit something made up from a cleverly bent plate washer to fake a
> screw-stop ?
>
> How about those odd hubs ?
>
> Has it been firmly established to there were never any French-threaded
> clipless pedals ever produced, even by Look ?
>
> Russ and David, I begin to understand your affinity for the "Lion of
France",
> as it is much better made than my Gitane Tour de France. :-)
>
> Glenn Jordan - Durham, NC (going out to ride with the Gitane to console
it)
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