Originally Posted by
sced
I think that the Suntour Sprint shifters from the mid 80's are retrofriction. I have them on a bike and they are very nice, cleaner looking than those Simplex ones. They seem to have some capacity for aromatically trimming the shift.
Never knew Suntour made a retrofriction, Are you sure they're not just ratchet shifters as they made a few models with it back then.
The later open lever versions of the Simplex retrofriction has as clean a design as any out there, IMO. It's the solid lever older (first) version that does not look as good, but can look good on older bikes.
Chombi