> What's so special about Campagnolo downtube shifters? Or, put it > another way, many would say the best downtube shifters ever were the Sun > Tour Sprints, which RBW has brought back into current production as > Silver shifters. Have you considered using them?
Another alternative are the Simplex Retrofriction which still manage to come up on eBay fairly often. I keep my quite lovel Campy nos DT shifters on the display shelf. My bikes all have Simplex Retrofriction. On Jul 23, 6:16 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:54 -0700, Eduardo Rosas wrote: > > So I'm finally getting close to getting my custom lugged "randonneur" > > type bike from a local builder. So naturally I'm stocking up on older > > proven technology like down-tube shifters. I finally found a nice set > > of c-record campy friction shifters that weren't all banged up, but... > > I could only find the kind that attaches to a crown and ideally I'd > > like to use the down-tube braze-ons. There is a piece, sorry I don't > > know the name (part #1 on this picture (http://www.ventoux.com/ > > campyrf.gif)) that I need, my set has this piece riveted into the > > crown and I'd rather not mutilate the crown to get it off. Does > > anyone happen to have a pair of these for sale or know where i might > > be able to pick some up. > > What's so special about Campagnolo downtube shifters? Or, put it > another way, many would say the best downtube shifters ever were the Sun > Tour Sprints, which RBW has brought back into current production as > Silver shifters. Have you considered using them? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
