Are these RetroFrictions?
04-13-09 | 08:46 PM
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Are these RetroFrictions?
Just wondering if the below shifters are re-branded RetroFrictions? They sure look like it to me...
04-13-09 | 08:58 PM
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Yes and sweet ones that I haven't seen before!
They may be dangerous, you should send them to me.
They may be dangerous, you should send them to me.
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04-13-09 | 08:59 PM
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I knew it!
Thank you ebay saved searches!
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04-13-09 | 09:26 PM
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04-14-09 | 05:13 AM
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Velo Orange used to sell those.
04-14-09 | 12:01 PM
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I won't know 'til they show up. Hopefully they are metal. I've never heard of plastic RetroFrictions...
04-14-09 | 12:17 PM
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They're plastic. They call it resin, but that's the same thing as far as I'm concerned.
04-14-09 | 12:24 PM
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Hmm...Well they were cheap enough. Hopefully they don't suck.
04-14-09 | 07:19 PM
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well didnt you have a weight weenie build going on? I seem to remember something about you expected it to ride like a wet noodle...
anyway, maybe these would work on that bike
anyway, maybe these would work on that bike
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04-14-09 | 07:34 PM
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Well...I've got 2 sets of the Modolo resin shifters which are probably lighter. It's my understanding that the Simplex shifters on a clamp won't mount on standard DT shifter bosses either...
Your post reminds me...I need to do an update on my weight weenie! I almost have all the parts now!
04-14-09 | 08:25 PM
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I used to have some Modolo resin shifters. They sucked. I could never tighten them enough to hold a gear... kept on downshifting. They went into the trash.
04-14-09 | 09:23 PM
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Pics of your A-D? Pretty please!
04-15-09 | 08:21 AM
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04-15-09 | 08:33 AM
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I never found anything that the early banded Simplex Retrofrictions would fit besides their own band. I wanted to put one on the single boss on my Peugeot, but there was just no way.
04-15-09 | 08:50 PM
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the early ones have a sunburst or a star or something on the top of the lever...the newer ones have a cutout loop. I'm addressing the newer ones. I still have the band I took 'em from somewhere and it was a conventional boss size. Never had a pair of the older ones.
04-22-09 | 09:00 PM
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I never saw those either. when I sold bikes we called that 'plastic' stuff "high impact nylon resin" *giggle* they are quite cool shifters.
