Re: [CR] Simplex "Retro-friction" bar-end shifters?

(Example: Framebuilders:Doug Fattic)

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:23:30 +0200
From: "M-gineering" <info@m-gineering.nl>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Simplex "Retro-friction" bar-end shifters?
References: <659173.1582.qm@web82204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <659173.1582.qm@web82204.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote: The pair I am holding in my hand
> have beefier, slightly curved levers and black hoods. I haven't torn the
> m apart to see how they work, but they definately have more resistance when
> shifting to a larger cog than when shifting to a smaller one, but like Ret
> rofriction DT shifters.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, Texas, USA

Sounds like the Cross Commandes ref 2615 I bought in the seventies. They contain only a few simple washers and you have to adjust the friction with the two impossible to reach nuts. They always worked themselves loose on tour, French design at it finest ;)

-- mvg

Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands