Donald Gillies wrote:
<snip> By the way, the first generation (1960's) raleighs didn't have a loop, they had a really cheesy "V" shaped flat bracket (tips of "V" brazed to each stay) that held a normal weinmann-type brake cable aluminum barrel adjuster (base of the "V"). the later semicircular loop accepts an absolutely positiviely _unique_ brass micro-barrel and if you lose that micro-barrel, you're totally hosed. +++++++++++++ If memory serves, the micro-adjuster that came with the Simplex plastic DT shifters, for those odd cases with full cable housing to the rear derailleur, worked fine on these Raleighs. I kept a couple, just in case... With all due respect, it was clearly the best part on that particular set of shifters.
harvey sachs
mcLean va