[CR]re: suicide shifters

(Example: Framebuilders:Dario Pegoretti)

Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:31:24 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]re: suicide shifters

Peter wrote:

Dale, do you know if the poor blighters use Benelux, Simplex (with aluminum or plastic knob), Huret or some other brand/model of suicide front changer? Now I see the wisdom in Simplex changing to a plastic knob for their lever front changer so that bicyclists can't hurt themselves. I would guess that the Huret lever front changer is ineffective for suicide. I bet the Archer Chimera family used Benelux lever front changers.

Peter ============================================================= Peter Brueggeman pbrueggeman@ucsd.edu San Diego California

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I know *why* they did it..they tried to shift a campy knock-off benelux rear with a Benelux or old Simplex braze-on dt shifter. That'd be enough to cause anyone to end it all.

Charles Andrews
SoCal