Re: [CR]front derailleur braze on...

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 21:10:06 -0500
To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]front derailleur braze on...
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From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>


smwillis@verizon.net wrote:
>> gabriel l romeu <romeug@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I remember, but i don't quite recall...The frame i am working on, a
>> late
>
>> 60's early 70's Raleigh, has a cable braze on on the down tube
>> designed
>
>> as a cable housing stop cupping down to the bottom bracket.
>> somewhere, in the dark recesses of my mind, i remember that there
>> were front dérailleurs that had the other end housing stop
>> integrated with the dérailleur (like rear dérailleurs). Of course,
>> this was the late 60's and memories are rather 'fuzzy' from that
>> time period. Did this style of FD in fact exist and are there any
>> good pictures that shows both this mechanism and the cable routing?
> http://thebikestand.com/campearlyftder.jpg not a great picture but it
> is one.

The SunTour Compe-V and SL front derailleurs also used a housing and could be found on many bike-boom era bikes:

http://www.interq.or.jp/www1/suntour/FD001/compeV03.JPG

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John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA