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

(Example: Framebuilders:Mario Confente)

Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:27:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Simplex "Retro-friction" bar-end shifters?
To: M-gineering <info@m-gineering.nl>, Phil Brown <philcycles@sbcglobal.net>
In-Reply-To: <48F0EF22.2070407@m-gineering.nl>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Phil, were the Retrofriction ones you spoke of made for cyclocross?  I fi nd I have a second pair NIP that looks identical, and they are in fact mark ed Cross Commander on the package.  I don't know what Marten is talking a bout though.  I just tighten the like any other barcon with the bolt that secures the lever to the body.  When the bolt is tight enough to keep th e lever from slipping, the action of shifting to a larger cog is noticeable lighter than shifting to a smaller cog, the classic Retrofriction,  So I don't see the problem.

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Sat, 10/11/08, M-gineering wrote:


From: M-gineering <info@m-gineering.nl> Subject: Re: [CR] Simplex "Retro-friction" bar-end shifters? To: Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 1:23 PM

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