I find CR comments about Huret Jubilee derailleur interesting.. I have owned a set since I purchased my first Raleigh Competition back in 1975.
The rear short cage derailleur has not given me any problems over 25 years, but the front has twisted once and required replacement. As I get older, my only slight regret is the the rear short cage derailleur can only handle a max 28T and there are some gear combinations that did not shift smoothly...
I believe that Huret put out a service advisory stating that 52-28T gear combinations were not advised... this may have caused my twisted front derailleur. Does anyone recall this this service announcement?
Regards, Steve Neago
Cincinnati, Ohio
> I don't think the Jubilee shifted all that badly by the European standards
> of the time. About like a Campy NR. The problem was the Jubilee was
> fragile, while the Campy was virtually indestructible. Of course, it was
> inferior to the all-alloy Simplex Super LJ, with its spring-loaded upper
> pivot, and far inferior to the slant parallelogram SunTours. Huret did
make
> some good derailleurs in the Duopar and the Success and later models, but
> these were perhaps too late, as the Japanese were alway two steps ahead of
> them. Oddly, when you look at the Huret derailleurs on Louison Bobet's
> bikes in the 50's, they seem to be at least as advanced a design as the
> Simplex or Campy designs of the time, but somehow Huret didn't make much
> progress for the next 20 years, though they did at least avoid the
adventure
> into Delrin which was part of the undoing of Simplex.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Houston, TX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon Ives" <monkeylad@mac.com>
> To: "Stephen Barner" <steve@sburl.com>
> Cc: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Jubilee (was Simplex) shifting
>
>
> > On Saturday, March 8, 2003, at 06:26 PM, Stephen Barner wrote:
> > > I always wondered what it was about the Huret Alvits and Sveltos that
> > > made
> > > them shift so bad.
> >
> > Bad design and worse execution, the Success was the first deraileur
> > they made that I felt shifted well. I do have 3 Jubilee's in my bins
> > cause I think the look cool. Check out
> > http://www.yellowjersey.org/
> >
> > This leads me to think about why people like Herse and Singer who
> > seemed to never be satisfied with the quality of the parts available
> > for their bikes spec'ed Huret deraileurs. When national pride
> > outweighs your need for good shifting it's pretty sad. It's not like
> > these guys didn't have the skill to make their own copies of the Campy
> > or Simplex setups at the time. As a mechanic it just boggles my mind.
> > Jan (or other Francophiles) any thoughts on this?
> > thanks,
> > Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
> > SB, CA