[CR]RE: Simplex Copying Campagnolo?

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Campagnolo)

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:22:37 -0400
From: "Kurt Sperry" <kurtsperry@netscape.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]RE: Simplex Copying Campagnolo?

I keep hearing how the Gran Sport wasn't the first parallelogram rear derailleur, or even that the Gran Sport was a copy of a Simplex design. Does anyone have a photo of a verifiably pre-GS parallelogram rear derailleur of any brand? I can't recall having seen an parallelogram-type earlier than the GS, although from past experience I wouldn't be the least surprised if someone had produced and marketed one. Probably in the 1890s!

Kurt "until pix BS" Sperry Bellingham WA

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