Re: [CR]eBay Retro-Friction Simplex Levers

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

From: Jerry & Liz Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Eric Elman" <tr4play@cox.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <000301c235e2$3420efd0$0200000a@biker2> <000401c23624$7d88e000$241b0e44@elman1>
Subject: Re: [CR]eBay Retro-Friction Simplex Levers
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 09:48:05 -0500


I have a pair of retofrictions on Campy brazeons on my LeJeune (the brazeons were added a few years after purchase). They work fine. I believe there is a small issue with the fixing screws. I think the thread on the fixing screws is different between the brazeon version, where the screw thread matches Campy brazeon studs, and the clampon version, where the screws match a different thread in the posts which are part of the clamp. This requires a little ingenuity in converting retrofrictions from brazeon to clampon and vice versa. I've converted brazeon to clampon by robbing the clamps, including fixing screws, from cheap plastic Simplex Prestige shifters. Don't think I've gone the other way, but a Campy or similar fixing screw could probably be used to attach retrofrictions to Campy studs. A Campy screw might require a washer, as I think the Simplex screw heads are a larger diameter than Campy. It may also be that some brazeon retrofrictions, especially early ones, may have been made for Simplex or Huret brazeon studs and it is possible these had different thread than Campy studs. If this is the case, hopefully the thread was the same as the clampon retrofrictions. Ain't French stuff wonderful?

Regards,

Jerry Moos


----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Elman
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 5:49 AM
Subject: [CR]eBay Retro-Friction Simplex Levers



> Can someone advise if these 1st generation Simplex retro-friction levers
> will work on standard shift lever braze-ons or if the bike they are used on
> needs some specific (read "odd" and hard to find) braze just for them?
>
> http://ebay.com/<blah>
>
> Thanks in advance,

>

> Eric Elman

> Somers, CT