gpvb1@comcast.net wrote:
> Note the bike does not have downtube shifter braze-ons. It just has a
> little tab beneath the downtube in that location, presumably to keep a
> bar-end shifter cable stop clamp from slipping down the downtube. I
> don't really want to put bar-ends on this bike, although I use them on
> many of my others.
>
> So, that brings up the downtube shifter-mounting issue. Does anybody
> have an appropriate clamp for mounting downtube shifters? If so, I have
> some Simplex retrofriction shifters I could use, but for which I have
> no clamp. (Or I could use the "endless band" shifters from Suntour, as
> requested in the post I just made.)
If you get a set of Zeus or Campy clamp-on shift levers, you can take the levers off and mount your nice Simplex retrofriction levers on the bosses.
Banana Brain has a few sets of NOS Zeus levers on eBay that would work for this.
NB: if you use Campy, you'll need the old Record/NR/SR type, as the Valentino/Gran Sport type won't have the proper mounting boss.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA