Peter Jon White wrote:
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> I wonder if just certain parts of the derailleurs were made by Simplex. The
> pulleys looked a lot like Simplex pulleys. Don't know. I've lost touch with
> Art since he left Fuji, and who knows if anyone now with Mavic USA would
> know about the Simplex connection, or say if they did know.
As previously mentioned, I actually have a Mavic derailleur that came with "SIMPLEX" marked pulleys.
I think you're right that certain parts of the components were supplied by outside sources. The raw forgings for the cranks were supplied by SR (Japan) and the hub forgings were obviously source outside of Mavic too.
Campagnolo did the same thing, with the ti parts of their components being supplied by OMAS, afterall.
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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