Personally, I don't think this derailluer was made by either Campy or Simplex. I've always assumed Galli was the actual manufacturer. This derailleur bears no resemblance to any Simplex model I have ever seen. There were definitely Simplex gruppos rebadged as Gippieme, and they may have been rebadged as Galli as well, but the rebadged Gippiemes I have seen are VERY obvious. The Gippieme-badged Simplex SLJ6600 on my circa 1975 Allegro is stamped with the Simplex logo and even with the Simplex model number - all they did was replace the metal "Simplex" nameplate with a "Gippieme" one. To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a Galli is just a Galli.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
-----Original Message----- From: youngc@netreach.net [mailto:youngc@netreach.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:19 AM To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]galli vs Campy
I have a (much) less than mint green ano one at home. I'll check the jockey wheels tonight to see if they are Simplex. That might lend weight of evidence to Simplex as the fabricator. Are there many cases of Campagnolo fabbing for
other Italian entities? I thought it was more in the other direction.
Charlie Young
Honeybrook, PA
> Re: Galli
> I thought they were made by Simplex even though it does
> bear a similarity to Campagnolo. I have one in mint cond
> and the jockey wheels are Simplex.
> Cheers,
> Matthew Gorski
> Belmont Shore, CA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Aldo Ross <swampmtn@siscom.net>
> To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 6:43 AM
> Subject: [CR]galli vs Campy
>
>
> Was this Galli r der really made by Campagnolo?
>
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> Aldo Ross