Originally Posted by
wrk101
If I am doing it to have a bike to ride, sorry, none of the above. Instead I would pull out a Suntour V with a claw hanger.
The early V GT showed up on a lot of early 1970s bikes. The quick cage design is really nice. Common co-op fodder.
SunTour V GT derailleur (2nd style)
Agreed -- SunTour beats everything else of that vintage by a wide margin. There is a reason everyone else copied the slant planograph just as soon as SunTour's patent expired.
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