On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 07:07 -0800, Jan Heine wrote: > > It's funny that the first generation, which Eric bought, had the nice > drop parallelogram and special upper pivot. When Campagnolo ran out of > those castings, they just put the longer cages on a standard Nuovo > Record body. It appears that Campagnolo's commitment to cyclotouring > never ran very deep. (Eric's actually is the best of them all, as it > has the reinforcing rib on the upper casting, which prevents it from > cracking in half.)
Jan, if you think that's bad you should have seen their first attempt at a touring derailleur. the Gran Turismo. This was the answer to the question, "What do you get when you cross a Valentino derailleur with a boat anchor?" Hard to credit what the Classic Rendezvous site has to say about the Rally: "1974: first edition Rally...To many minds, the best all round touring derailleur ever made." I guess those minds must never have encountered the SunTour VGT Luxe or the Shimano Crane, never mind the Huret Duopar or any Shimano MTB rear derailleur made in the past 20 years. -- 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.
