[CR]Re: Derailleur "drop-cage" triple extensions ...

(Example: Framebuilders:Norman Taylor)

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From: "Toni Theilmeier" <Toni.Theilmeier@t-online.de>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:57:01 +0200
To: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Derailleur "drop-cage" triple extensions ...

Sorry to say, it´s not like that. It really is made for a Bates Flying Gate to enable it to have a double, even with the "down tube" being as advanced as it is. Regards,

Toni.

P.S.: In the case of a sudden disruption of an e-mail conversation with me, please assume that I have given up the medium and contact me in a more traditional way. I am in the trial phase of a last ditch system after some others could not stand my constant abusing them. Am 11.08.2004 um 19:08 schrieb Donald Gillies:
> The "triple extension" was an after-market item (later offered on some
> japanese derailleurs as stock) that I saw advertised in bicycling
> magazine in the 1970's. Sighting from the rare dropouts towards the
> crankset, I believe it looked like this :
>
> tab
> ||
> \/
>
> \ O <= cage screw goes through this hole only.
> | |
> +==+
>
> The inner side is a tab that fits through the inner hole at the back
> of your derailleur cage. The outer side has a hole, and a very small
> flat screw was used to affix this "drop-cage" to the regular cage. It
> added maybe 5-10 mm to the vertical length of a derailleur cage.
>
> Did it work o.k. ?? Does anyone still have these ?? It should be
> pretty easy to make this out of a soft piece of steel.
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA