Full proper adjustment of a TDF takes about an hour of iteration. There are many tension variables for the chain. It is well worth getting it right.
As to the travel, there is a threaded collar that adjusts, if I remember, the inner throw and the outer is just the limit of the mechanism.
It is best to let some kind soul at the Cirque set this up for you. I have no idea how French bike shops looked their customers in the eye and charged them for an hours labor to get their TDF just right in the 1950's.
Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ
> After putting in a long day getting a 50's vintage Dawes
\r?\n> "presentable" to bring to the party, I discover I know zip about
\r?\n> adjusting the Tour de France-style Simplex derrailleur. the
\r?\n> inward stop is currently on the middle of three rear cogs. How
\r?\n> do you adjust it to move inward? And, then, how is outward
\r?\n> movement stopped?
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\r?\n> Alternately, I will leave the cable dangling and someone can
\r?\n> show me in person on Friday.
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\r?\n> Thanks,
\r?\n> Mark Hoffman,
\r?\n> New Britain, CT