[CR]36 denti

(Example: Framebuilders:Cecil Behringer)

From: "Leonard Bulger" <bulger@erim-int.com>
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]36 denti
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 10:09:50 -0500

The thing I find strange about all these derailleurs marked 36 denti is that I don't recall ever seeing a 36 tooth freewheel cog. Regina went up to 31, and Shimano and Sun Tour up to 34. Around 1980 there was a Sun Tour AG that went up to 38, but it used it's own special derailleur. Perhaps Campy and Zeus were putting a large max cog on the the derailleur knowing that it was a spec that couldn't be tested. This may be archaeological evidence that evil pointy-haired marketeers were already at work in southern Europe in the early sixties.

Leonard Bulger

Snowy Ann Arbor