e-CHUCKIE your not at the oscars??? re: your point, (which is at bottom)... i have seen what you have seen. i have seen similar results on the brazed-on tab. go figure. maybe we should all return to 5 gears. e-RICHIE (...i'd like to thank the academy)
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:49:37 -0800 Chuck Schmidt
<chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> writes:
> Richard M Sachs wrote:
> >
> > i nominate the brazed-on front changer.
> > anyone's. all of them.
> > its introduction solved no problems
> > and created others. the vertical placement
> > of the braze-on tab has never accomodated
> > all changers of a given era. and, as time has
> > passed, proper placement from one era
> > doesn't always allow efficient derailleur
> > adjustment for future parts.
> > all my frames have them!!
> > e-RICHIE
>
>
> ?-R?CH??,
>
> I have seen seat tubes with small dents caused by clamp-on front
> derailleurs and I have seen lots of seat tubes with rust underneath
> the
> clamp when it chips the paint.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, California