Re: [CR]U-08 and unpleasant memories

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From: "dddd" <dddd@pacbell.net>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]U-08 and unpleasant memories
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 23:06:41 -0700
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It sounds like your cable was somehow binding. I've got a UO8 and a Raleigh "Grand Sports" model also with the lowly Prestige black plastic derailers, both shift really, really well, good enough for racing imo, using original Sedis and Renold chains, respectively. These were dual-sprung pivoted derailers that handled impressively large gear ranges with aplomb. I have yet to break a rear derailer of this type (except a pully or two), but their front version would not take well to normal heavy tightening of the clamp bolts without splitting. Kind of reminds me of a troublesome Schwinn front hub that I found would not respond well to adjustment when I was 8 or 9 years old. Years later I found I had put the retainers in backward, probably when I was six or so. Your Peugeot probably had a burr on the end of one of the cable housings. The front one above the bb shell would also tend to collect dirt and water pretty quickly. So, had enough of New York, huh?

David Snyder
Auburn, CA, USA


----- Original Message -----
From: Bianca Pratorius
Subject: [CR]U-08 and unpleasant memories



>I bought a brand new U-08 in blue, and although the ride might have been
>fine, I couldn't get over the lousy shifting. It was taken from me at
>gunpoint in NY Central Park about two weeks after I bought it, but it took
>all I could muster to set the shifting so that I could actually get off a
>few successful rear changes. Brakes OK, ride OK, front derailleur fine,
>rear unbearable. Am I in a different movie from the list member that would
>spend money to bring one of these up to original condition. You swapped the
>rear derailleur right?
>
> Garth Libre in Miami Shores. Fl