DISRAELI GEARS
To celebrate their 1962 move from steel to modern space-age plastic technology Simplex launched a range that perversely included this living fossil. The Prestige Cadet is a single pulley derailleur - for those stick-in-the-muds who still dreaded the extra ‘drag’ caused by a second pulley wheel.
One pulley gave less drag, less weight - but no capacity and, more importantly, a gear change so imprecise as to be worse than useless.
This version has the early ‘thumb-wheel’ adjusters.
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New Cycling 05/1981 - Derailleur Collection page 75 - scan 64 of 178
New Cycling 05/1981 - Derailleur Collection page 75 - scan 64 of 178