Originally Posted by
pastorbobnlnh
Chris,
Your Paramount is a real beauty. An absolute delight to behold. I'm glad I could inspire. Some Sundays I like to think I can do something similar from the pulpit.
The Rallys are real beauties of a touring RD. I have no complaints about mine. It's a shame they are so hard to find, and thus go so high on ebay. I waded in on one last week but bowed out when it went above $90. It was in Sweden and eventually closed around $130 plus the shipping.
I have tried to sell 2 this summer! Both times I had no bids, I think I stared both at $75 or close to it. one was a first gen. but had some run on the inside of the upper pulley cage, the other was a barely used 2nd gen. with it's share of scratches. I ended up trading or selling them to bike forum members I couldn't get rid of them. I suck at selling things on ebay.
At the beginning of the summer I purchased an NOS 2nd gen locally for Dr. D. then all of a sudden it started raining Rallys. I picked up 3 used ones 2 first gen and 1 2nd gen. over the course of the summer. East hill got one of the 1st gen.s and Dr.D. got another 2nd gen. I kept one first gen. for myself... I picked up a sachs huret new success long cage RD last week which has the same geometry as the 1st gen. look and quality are excellent and I may use it in the future in conjunction with the NOS 13-28 7s Maillard Sachs freewheel I picked up today
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