1977 Schwinn downtube shifters?
03-26-23, 10:52 PM
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1977 Schwinn downtube shifters?
Just bought a 1977 Super LeTour 12.2 (the full chrome version) with downtube shifters:
Everything else on it but the saddle and bar tape seems pretty original. If I wanted to return to downtube shifters, any idea what would be correct?
I was thinking of the earliest 600 lever I could find (since 50% of the bike was running 600), but the catalog looks like some rubber-tipped lever or another.
I know early 600 did, in fact, offer a bar-end option, but I don't think that was it. Plus, I just like downtubes.
Everything else on it but the saddle and bar tape seems pretty original. If I wanted to return to downtube shifters, any idea what would be correct?
I was thinking of the earliest 600 lever I could find (since 50% of the bike was running 600), but the catalog looks like some rubber-tipped lever or another.
I know early 600 did, in fact, offer a bar-end option, but I don't think that was it. Plus, I just like downtubes.
03-27-23, 01:35 PM
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Trying to remember what came on my 77’. Have to wait till I get home…
Those are the ones which came on mine, Shimano Unishift.
Those are the ones which came on mine, Shimano Unishift.
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03-27-23, 10:46 PM
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Thanks, all!
03-28-23, 07:56 PM
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Funny I guessed they would be the Unishift levers, Shimano's version of non-ratcheted retrofriction levers.
