DISRAELI DOCUMENTS
Publisher: Shimano
Country: Japan
Date: September 1972
Derailleur brands: Shimano
Derailleurs: too numerous to mention - see individual pages
Of all the catalogues in this collection, I find this particular one the most disturbing. In the way of relics of the early 1970s, it is both comfortingly familiar and alarmingly alien...
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•Wonder at those extra-terrestrial insect helmets (heat build up - pahh!)
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•Dig the startlingly modernism of the contents page
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•Groove to the hessian-look backgrounds, which take me straight back to about 1972, when one wall in our house was wall-papered in exactly that hessian
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•Note that the only mention of Dura-Ace refers to chainsets (page 16).
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•Marvel that, as long ago as 1972 Shimano produced a 2 speed automatic hub gear (page 15) and a cable-operated disc brake (page 17). In about 1975 I used exactly this disc brake on a tandem - and lived to tell the tale.
Shimano Bicycle Parts - ’72
