Re: [CR]Short Cage Rally

(Example: History)

From: <RaleighPro531@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:29:50 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Short Cage Rally
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 4/20/2003 9:20:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, PeterJonWhite@PeterWhiteCycles.com writes:


> I tried it with the cage shown; NR or first generation SR. It didn't work
> very well. But with the second generation Super Record cage, it worked
> quite
> well. And I sold quite a few in that configuration, starting in whatever
> year the second generation Super Record plates became available as spare
> parts; maybe 1980 or so.
>
> The stock spring settings were awful and had to be changed. But by changing
> the spring settings, you could get good chain wrap over a pretty wide gear
> range.
>

Does this do something that a NR or Super Record couldn't? Not sure I understand the "why" of this. I put the Rally plates on my NR cause I had it and Bicycle Classics was selling the plates cheap!

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA