Originally Posted by
tiger1964
Wow, that's some vintage Huret; the long-cage Luxe and the levers the length of fondue forks.
My friend, whose father's bike my Gran Sport was, started riding with me in 1971, and he rode a Raleigh a step or two down the line-up but with those exact derailleurs/levers.
I have a set of the Huret Luxe derailleurs with the long levers. They came with the 1970 Super Course Mixte that my wife rides. I've put them on the '73 Super Course where I'm kind of collecting all the Super Course weirdness (Capella lugs, Nervar Sport crankset, Huret Luxe, etc.) from the Super Course decade.
The derailleur shifts fairly well but those long levers are a necessity because the return spring is downright vicious. Also it is the only bike on which I run a dork disk just because the rear derailleur looks to me to be vulnerable of being easily bent to the point of reaching the spokes.