Harvey Sachs wrote:
>Oddly, I got very fond of various iterations of the Allvit front.
Me too. My favorite version was the one where the cage had a post sticking off to the left, which went through an eyebolt sort of thing on the parallelogram.
This gave the option of varying the angle of the cage in the "pitch" axis, to work with oddball chainwheel sizes.
That was how I got the 72/52 double on my Moulton Mk III to shift OK. Nothing else would have worked.
By the way, for the non French speakers out there, "Allvit" means "all speeds." ("Vitesse" is French for "speed.)
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