Originally Posted by
bulgie
But be aware that Simplex were probably* made for French diameter TT, which is larger than English/Italian. Not sure they'll tighten on an inch TT (don't remember)
* maybe they made them in inch size too, but all I've seen were French.
Jargon request: can we try to call these housing clamps? Cable clamps clamp cables, like at the brake or the straddle yoke.
I'm also on a crusade to stamp out the term "cable stop". There are housing stops, and there are cable guides, but there are no cable stops, that I know of.
Haha, I'll join you in your word purification quest. It's an effort made in vain, but I do it anyway. The little balls in bearings: people call them ball bearings, but I call them bearing balls. Please join me. And there is no such thing as something that is very unique. Unique means one-of-a-kind, and you can't get closer to one than one. Something is either unique, or it is not. Nothing is more unique than another thing.
But where do you stand on the term bottom bracket? The term originally referred to the lug, aka bracket, at the bottom of the frame. The cups-balls-and-axle assembly are a bearing, not a bracket.
See (and contribute to) my
bicycle misnomenclature thread.