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27motorhead
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..... and a rare moment he's not climbing in big ring, but in fairness is out of the saddle giving it some hassle.
I'm weird. For one I love this photograph - I think it may have been sepia toned a bit, but looking closely, I see the cable routing even back then is top-notch. Rear mech cabling along the top-tube, down the rear stay, and into the rear mech. For the period, it's pretty well forward thinking, or if you like very backward thinking considering it was the way it was done upto the 50s more-or-less.
Front mech cable routing is still via the down-tube; no choice back then I guess. A pulley wheel on the seat-tube sort of solved this in the early MTB world. Pretty sure I ranted sometime ago over how retarded modern gravel bikes are still duplicating normal road cable routing. I get depressed when I see so called top class modern stuff that fails to learn what really makes sense.
Anyhow, I would love a retro machine like this, but I suspect uber rare.
vcballbat
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Talking about forward thinking Bert Ooesterbosh Raleigh's time trial specialist and leadout man was the only Raleigh team rider to experiment with the latest Aero ideas using bar-end shifters to maintain an aero profile... loving the cable routing, am i a weirdo
...na.. just love looking at interesting old bikes
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27motorhead
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That’s how my wife describes me, but without the “na” bit!!!am i a weirdo
Interesting that @vcballbat - there appears some sort of gizmo or the outer cable actuates the front mech
vcballbat
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I'm thinking there's a cable guide on the back of the seat tube, then a short length of outer, then a cable guide replacing the cable clamp bolt on the front mech and the cable clamped lower down, the rear is running down the seat stay.Interesting that @vcballbat - there appears some sort of gizmo or the outer cable actuates the front mech
This is Bert back with the Team for the 83 season with hidden cables and Simplex shifters.
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