[CR] Gitane/Simplex Front Derailleur Question

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From: "Norm and Val Lafleur" <nvlafleur@verizon.net>
To: classicrendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:57:59 -0400
Subject: [CR] Gitane/Simplex Front Derailleur Question


This one is for all you Francophiles out there. I'm working on an 80's Gitane for a friend and have come across something I've never seen before. It has a braze on Simplex front derailleur that mounts to a boss that looks like a water bottle boss rather than the usual tab. I'm wondering if anyone ever made an adapter so that a standard braze on front derailleur could be used. Is this frame destined to use this derailleur for the rest of it's days.

Norm Lafleur
Ashfield, Massachusetts
USA