In April 1965 Shimano placed this advert for their new parallelogram derailleur the ‘Sportsman’. This is a fairly blatant copy of the Campagnolo Sportman (note the lack of ‘s’). The Shimano Sportsman appears to be very similar to the later Shimano Archery, but has a slightly different pulley cage with a point on the bottom.

Perhaps Shimano had to abandon the Sportsman name because it was too similar to Campagnolo’s model name.

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• Publisher: New Cycling
• Country: Japan
• Date: April 1965
• Derailleur brands: Shimano
• Derailleurs: Shimano - early parallelogram models