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1960s

 

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1960

  1. Cyclo Benelux Super 60 (1st style)


1961

  1. Huret Allvit (2nd style)

  2. Simplex Juy Export 61


1962

  1. Campagnolo Sportman

  2. Cyclo Benelux Super 60 (2nd style)?

  3. Gian Robert

  4. Simplex Prestige (532)

  5. Simplex Prestige Cadet (1st style)

  6. Zeus Gran Sport (1st style)?

1963

  1. Campagnolo Record (1020)

  2. Campagnolo Nuovo Sport (2230)?

  3. Cyclo Benelux Sport P2

  4. Huret Svelto (1st style)

  5. Sanko PA

  6. SunTour Skitter (1st style)


1964

  1. Favorit PWB racing

  2. SunTour Gran-Prix

  3. Gian Robert Campione (1st style)

  4. Schwinn Sprint


1965

  1. DNB black?

  2. DNB red?

  3. Huret Svelto (2nd style)?

  4. Sanko Procyon PV-I

  5. Shimano Combi 12 red

  6. Shimano 3.3.3. Wide black

  7. Simplex Prestige (537)

  8. Simplex Prestige Cadet (2nd style)

  9. SunTour New Skitter

  10. SunTour Competition


1966

  1. Sanko Procyon PV-III

  2. Shimano Archery blue

  3. Shimano Archery Wide red

  4. Simplex Prestige (637)

  5. SunTour Competition Twin


1967

  1. Campagnolo Nuovo Record (1020/A 1st style)

  2. Campagnolo Nuovo Record (1020/A 2nd style)

  3. Campagnolo Nuovo Record (1020/A 3rd style)

  4. Favorit PWB touring?

  5. Shimano Archery-W red

  6. Shimano Pecker (1st style)

  7. Shimano Pecker (2nd style)

  8. Shimano Sky Lark red (1st style)

  9. Shimano Lark-W (1st style)

  10. Shimano Lark black (1st style)?

  11. Shimano Lark gold (1st style)

  12. SunTour Skitter (2nd style)


1968

  1. Kharkov (1st style)?

  2. SunTour V (1st style)

  3. SunTour Honor (1st style)


1969

  1. Shimano Lark black (2nd style)

  2. SunTour Skitter (3rd style)?

  3. Zeus Criterium (1st style)



































































































































































































































See also documents from the 1960s.


With the dawn of the new decade the pull-chain derailleur was dead and the parallelogram design was the only game in town. The very last new pull-chain designs that I am aware of are a 1960 Sanko H-2 and, naturally, the 1960 Simplex Juy Record 60.


In simple terms this was a decade in which:


  1. •The Italians perfected the art of making bicycle jewellery, Campagnolo’s Nuovo Record set new standards for combining unjustifiable expense, beautiful finish and extreme desirability. This was not machinery, it was a proper luxury good, to rank alongside a Maserati motorcar, a Gucci handbag and a pied à terre in Monte Carlo.

  2. •The French perfected the art of obtaining money for old rope. The Huret Allvit and the Simplex Prestige are two of my all-time least favourite designs. They were vaguely acceptable in the first few years of the decade - but a disgrace by its end. Nevertheless Simplex and Huret manufactured them in their millions and continued to do so well into the 1970s. Unlike the Allvit and Prestige, I have a soft spot for the sheer simplicity of the Huret Svelto, but you couldn’t consider it to be an eloquent expression of the design engineer’s art. More...

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