Re: [CR]Huret Jubilee weight

(Example: History:Norris Lockley)

Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:09:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Huret Jubilee weight
cc: tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com

Gosh Tom, are you angling for a job at the Campagnolo marketing department *grin* ??

"I think we should praise the modern offerings for weighing as little as they do given that they shift among TWICE as many cogs, under a far greater range of conditions, faster and more reliably. We can argue all day about the necessity of 10 cogs, the issues of interchangability, durabilty, and performance in extreme conditions, but it's not fair to compare weights of parts that do very different jobs."

If you consider imho that the friction derailleur wasn't perfected until about 1975 or 1976 (I vote with Frank Berto for the Suntour Cyclone, but others may say it's Suntour Superbe), the indexed derailleur is still in its infancy and we won't see a really optimized indexed shifting derailleur until 50 more years have passed ... :-) :-)

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA