Rear Mech. What do you Make of This?

[Iwasgoodonce]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Shimano-Altus-LX- ... 35a66c00b8

Are the names that old? Altus?

 

[longbeech]

Loking at Sheldon's shimano page I would say no. Altus appeared as a renaming of the 300GS group which was still around in 1990. the reference to LX in the 70s is also a bit duff as that spun out of the deore group in the early 90s. dont recognise the mech but it dos'nt look too flash!

 

[one-eyed_jim]

Not so fast Abernathy!

http://velobase.com/ViewSingleComponent ... 8&AbsPos=0

That's definitely a late seventies style derailleur - several Shimano models used that ribbed upper knuckle at the time.

I don't know whether "LX" in the eBay link is just a typo for "LT" or whether there was more than one Altus model available.

I agree that it's nothing special though. Not really worth the postage, unfortunately.

 

[longbeech]

Well b***er me sideways with the rough end of a pineapple :shock:
never seen that one before - not missed much though
Cheers Jim

 

[one-eyed_jim]

Here's another one!

http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0188859047

Seems there were at least two models in the early eighties: LT and ST

http://www.fa-technik.adfc.de/Herstelle ... pen80.html

and the Schwinn Voyageur came with the LT in '80 and '81:

http://sandro.knot.org/blog/wp-content/ ... arison.pdf

Isn't the Internet wonderful?

:?

 

[Tel]

I kinda like it, it's just a bit different. I have a Shimano 500 gearset

http://velobase.com/ViewSingleComponent ... &AbsPos=16

Which although isn't worth much I'd be sorry to see it go, that said I think it may make it onto a project bike soon...