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Old 07-08-09 | 08:16 PM
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Bikes: 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo; 1960 Capo Sieger (2); 1962 Carlton Franco Suisse; 1970 Peugeot UO-8; 1982 Bianchi Campione d'Italia; 1988 Schwinn Project KOM-10;

Originally Posted by Mike Mills
... The darker bike appears to have a Gran Sport but the lighter bike appears to have some other derailleur. What is it? It looks like a Suntour Cyclone or some such but it cannot be so, if I understand the era of the photograph. Please explain.
It's a Simplex (probably) or Cyclo bandspring POS, which was made obsolete by the Campagnolo Gran Sport, the first modern parallelogram rear derailleur. Note the normal-low reverse shift, meaning that if your cable slipped or snapped, the derailleur cage and chain would go right into the spokes, which could ruin your whole day on a fast descent during an attempted 4-5 shift.

The original 1960 Varsinentals came with the obsolete Simplex suicide shifter up front and the equally suicidal Simplex bandspring in back, because Frank Schwinn told Keith Kingbay to save $1.27 by using those junky components instead of the vastly superior Huret Allvit rear and matching front. In 1961, Kingbay got the Huret brothers drunk on martinis at a steak house in Chicago, and they agreed to match Lucien Juy's price.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
Carlton: 1962 Franco Suisse, S/N K7911
Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
Schwinn: 1988 Project KOM-10, S/N F804069

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