Re: [RBW] Retro Rear Der

2011-04-06 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 20:30 -0700, Eric Norris wrote: Campagnolo Rally. Friction shifting ... Retro ... Beautiful ... Is there any other choice? Sure. SunTour VGT Luxe. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RBW Owners Bunch group. To post to this

Re: [RBW] Retro Rear Der

2011-04-05 Thread Eric Norris
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

Re: [RBW] Retro Rear Der

2011-04-05 Thread Tim McNamara
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