Originally Posted by
cudak888
Somehow, I doubt what I'm about to say, but do you think it was made to work with one of those band-on Simplex shifters designed to fit over a single right-side brazeon?
Granted, this would definitely indicate the Campagnolo plate has been painted in place - but I'm not sure if Simplex made an equivalent of these dating back to the 1950's. Heck, I'm not even sure if they were used on anything other than Peugeots.
I have no doubt that as people moved away from "suicide shifters" to cable-operated on bikes with a single braze-on on the right, the bands-over style clamp for the left side evolved. This has been covered in a previous thread by SailorBenjamin:
Cyclo-Benelux DT pivot screw threading? . I'm still trying to find out what type of
more modern shifter can be made to work on the Cyclo Benelux braze-on, and what the thread of the attachment screw is, properly. The red Drysdale above looks like it has a band-on clamp for the right-side shifter, painted red -- am I wrong about that?