Galen wrote:
> Yes, Simplex made their front derailleurs in both clamp-on and braze-on
> varieties. Both the SJ and SLJ series were available in double and
> triple chainwheel varieties. However, true to the French habit of doing
> things different from everyone else, the braze-on derailleurs would only
> go on a peculiarly distinctive mounting system that used a water bottle
> holder braze-on.
The Simplex FD braze-on may have *looked* like a water bottle mount, but (again, in typical French fashion) was not. Water bottle mounts use 5x0.8m threading; the Simplex FD braze-on uses 6x1.0m threading.
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA