Re: [CR]Introduction date of Simplex retrofriction levers

Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:08:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "scott davis" <francopedia@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Introduction date of Simplex retrofriction levers
To: youngc@NetReach.Net, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <200203191432.JAA08932@sardinia.netreach.net>

I think the Retro-Friction levers appeared at the same time as the Super LJ derl. I guess that would make them circa 1974-75 onwards. Scott in SP, MN

--- youngc@NetReach.Net wrote:

> Folks:
>
> Could someone inform me of the approximate
> introduction of the Simplex
> retrofriction shift levers? I recall having read
> that they were a favored
> substitution for Campagnolo NR shifters in the
> peleton around the '80s. I'm
> wondering if they showed up a bit earlier than that
> and whether they would be
> period correct for bicycles from around 1975 on.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie Young
> Honeybrook,
> PA
>
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