At 01:16 PM 8/9/06 -0400, Sheldon Brown wrote:
>These derailers [Lark & Eagle] also featured a nifty Shimano invention
that is no
>longer available, unfortunately. The anchor bolt was mounted on a
>spring loaded arm, so you could "preselect" a lower gear by yanking
>back on the lever if you accidentally got stopped in too high a gear.
>As soon as you would start to pedal, the spring would shift the
>derailer down to whatever position you had selected.
Good luck with that today, when people need index shifters to find a gear while on the move, let alone stopped! ;-)
John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
Woodstock, ON Canada