I reminisced:
> >>There is a rare and quite wonderful Sun Tour
> >>low-normal parallelogram derailer, probably
> >>dating from the late '60s. It's called the
> >>"Skitter" and it is a brilliant desgn.
Jeff Noakes wrote:
>There are two slightly fuzzy pictures of a "Skitter" available at the
>SunTour museum:
>
><http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/suntour/rd/fskitter.html>
That's a different (probably earlier) version, with separate springs. Appears to be high-normal, too.
I'll try to dig out mine and photograph it...
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