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http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Home.html Good luck, Bill On Apr 6, 10:59 am, Jim Cloud <cloud...@aol.com> wrote: > I've used a late version of the Rally rear derailleur > (here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/37964304@N05/4880410555/in/set-721576246... > ) for about the last 14 years on my vintage Paramount. It works > quite well. I do notice that the Rally works better with a SunTour > Winner Pro or Sachs freewheel than the old Regina freewheels that were > available when the Rally appeared. > > Jim Cloud > Tucson, AZ > > On Apr 5, 10:23 pm, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > > > > > It's a dual pivot so it does mimic the SunTours in that regard, but I have > > never seen a Rally that was a slant parallelogram design and that was the > > other key thing in improving shifting. IIRC the Rally was discontinued > > before the SunTour patent expired and Shimano pounced on it. I'd have to > > go look at the Campy timeline. > > > The Rally derailleurs do shift better with modern cog profiles and flexible > > 3/32" chains; they were terrible back in the day of 5 speeds. > > > On Apr 5, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Eric Norris wrote: > > > > Actually, mine shifts very nicely, probably because its design mimicked > > > Japanese derailleurs of the time. This particular Rally is on my PBP bike. > > > > --Eric > > > > On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:03 PM, Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> wrote: > > > >> On Apr 5, 2011, at 10:30 PM, Eric Norris wrote: > > > >>> Campagnolo Rally. Friction shifting ... Retro ... Beautiful ... Is > > >>> there any other choice? > > > >> Almost anything else. Those derailleurs shifted very poorly, even by > > >> Campagnolo standards of the time. Any cheap SunTour contemporary > > >> derailleur shifted much better. Campy was behind the curve in > > >> derailleur performance for years and years. > > > >> Purty, though.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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-bunch@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.
