Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> > The bar end shifter that preceeded the downtube
> > shifter was only made in aluminum from my
> > understanding.
>
> Scott Davis wrote:
> >
> > Chuck, here's a bronze bar end shifter, which I once
> > owned...
>
http://photos.yahoo.com/
Scott, why do you think those parts are bronze? Can you see bronze somewhere where the plating is worn off, or...? I have to say, just from looking at the photo, it sure looks like aluminum to me. Brass or bronze bike parts are usually chrome plated, and I'll bet a gross of twizzlers the part in the pic isn't chromed. It's possible nowadays to plate bronze to look like aluminum, good enough to fool me in a picture that size anyway, but that wasn't done back then that I know of.
Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA