I have a Simplex Foret rear derailleur. It is a well madeand very sturdy touring derailleur and a copy of the Suntour design. I believe it is designed to be indexed. This doesn't really help but anything that copied the Suntour design was clearly after January 1985 when Suntours patent (at least in the US) ran out.
By gosh, I just spotted the coolest feature on this derailleur. One of the parallelogram pins is in fact threaded. Pull it out and the whole derailleur flops open for cleaning. Neat.
By the way, is the demise of Simplex a special listmeister OT exemption or what?
Joe Bender-Zanoni Great Notch, NJ
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> So, what year, I wonder, did Simplex finally "bite the dust", "Hit the
> skids", "go under the last time", " kick the bucket" "Go kaput"?
> (Can we all now take our hats off and have a moment of silence?)
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> Dale Brown
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: Howard Darr <hdarr@localnet.com>; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:24:38 +0000
> Subject: Re: [CR]mystery simplex
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> A cheap set from the late 1980s - these came out about year I think
> before
> Simplex introduced indexed gears at the 1989 Paris show...
>
> Hilary Stone
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> Bristol, England
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>> From: "Howard Darr" <hdarr@localnet.com>
>> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:57:54 -0500
>> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>> Subject: [CR]mystery simplex
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>> I asked earlier this week what these were. Please, I was hoping to
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> know.
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>> 7205434984 = ebay #
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>> howard darr
>> Clymer PA
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