[RBW] Re: Classic Friction Shifting

2010-12-07 Thread Benedikt
Pretty. I love the "textured" parts and raised lettering. They don't make parts like that anymore. Let us know how it works out. On Dec 7, 8:45 pm, Eric Norris wrote: > Just arrived from an eBay seller in France: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/35176...@n03/sets/72157625550425538/ > > Classic

[RBW] Re: Classic Friction Shifting

2010-12-08 Thread MichaelH
I still have a mid 80s vintage NR derailler in my parts bin. I have great memories of it and would love to use it on a bike today, but it just doesn't have the capacity my vintage legs need now. I used it with a 52/42 and 13-26 and that was about its limit, 23 teeth. Today I need about 30 teeth

[RBW] Re: Classic Friction Shifting

2010-12-08 Thread JoelMatthews
I had atrocious bad luck with the second generation Campy Rally. Bought NOS on eBay first time I used it, it literally came apart. Possibly there was a bolt missing? But it came in the sealed Campy plastic bag.* I've heard the first generation were better. Much harder to find, that is for sure.

[RBW] Re: Classic Friction Shifting

2010-12-08 Thread Jan Heine
The Campagnolo Rally isn't really a great design, but it can work very well with the right chain and freewheel combination. I had one on my touring bike for years. It worked great with a 7-speed Dura-Ace freewheel with the twisted teeth and a 7-speed Sedisport chain. When I switched to a Regina 5-s

[RBW] Re: Classic Friction Shifting

2010-12-08 Thread JoelMatthews
> When Campagnolo ran out of those castings, they just put the longer cages on > a standard Nuovo > Record body. Unless my particular derailleur was actually missing a component, I think this is where mine went wrong. My set up must have put more torque where the cage attached to the body then i

Re: [RBW] Re: Classic Friction Shifting

2010-12-08 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 07:07 -0800, Jan Heine wrote: > > It's funny that the first generation, which Eric bought, had the nice > drop parallelogram and special upper pivot. When Campagnolo ran out of > those castings, they just put the longer cages on a standard Nuovo > Record body. It appears that