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Originally Posted by jemoryl
Strangely enough, I think the first index system may have been made for low end bikes: Shimano Positron? This system started showing up on department store bikes sometime around the early '80s, with two cables pushing/pulling the rear derailleur, which had ball bearing detents. Here is a 1982 catalog page from Shimano: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/shimano1982/pages/36.html
We thought it deeply uncool, made for people who couldn't figure out how to shift properly. |
Yeah, that was a false start. The front freewheeling system was too weird.