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, magnificently sooty, example has a plain pulley cage stop, a black painted b-knuckle and black oxide finish on the p-knuckle. The lush chrome on my other example is nowhere to be seen.

A strange Dickensian style meets very little content...

• Derailleur brands: Gambato
• Country: Argentina
• Date of introduction: 1980?
• Date of this example: unknown
• Model no.: unknown
• Weight: 311g including hanger plate but excluding dropout bolt
• 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