DISRAELI GEARS

Gambato Sport (2nd style)

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This generation of Gamabato Sport is an 'inexpensive', functional, spot-welded, pressed steel, object that can only be described as crude and ugly. It shares a lot of design features with a Spanish derailleur called the Triplex Sport - which dates from 1974.

As with most of my Gambato derailleurs, I have not real evidence for dates.


This example has a threaded pulley cage stop and, rather glamorous, chromed, parallelogram plates.

The kind of derailleur that Cadmium plating was created for...


  • Derailleur brands: Gambato
  • Country: Argentina
  • Date of introduction: 1980?
  • Date of this example: unknown
  • Model no.: unknown
  • Weight: 312g including hanger plate
  • Maximum cog: 28 teeth (a guess)
  • Total capacity: 28 teeth (another guess)
  • Pulley centre to centre: 47mm
  • Index compatibility: friction
  • Chain width: 3/32”
  • Logic: top normal
  • B pivot: unsprung
  • P pivot: sprung
  • Materials: steel

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