tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post8890388208749838844..comments2024-03-27T11:44:15.723-04:00Comments on The Retrogrouch: The Simpleton's Guide to Simplex: SLJ 5000Brookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12110998345857993287noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-72669611167910931432019-12-18T02:42:09.292-05:002019-12-18T02:42:09.292-05:00Hello Robert,
Thanks for this wonderful article fo...Hello Robert,<br />Thanks for this wonderful article for a fairly modern Simplex.<br />I wonder however if you can help me in identifying my old Simplex gears. They are on a bike I have owned since 1959 and three bikes were built by Greyhound but two were believed to have been sold to overseas buyers. They were especially built for a 1958 race event here in Perth Western Australia. So in essence mine is most likely the only bike in existance of the three built. It has a Simplex four speed and is entirely original but the bike is in overall poor condition as storage was less than ideal. However because of its history and rarity I think it is worth restoring.<br />Looking at pictures on line it looks like a Simplex TdeF model or very similar but as it was built in 1958 or therabouts and the TdeF model appears to have come out in about 1950 I wonder if I asm on the right trak. <br />It is a bit hard to read but on the outside main bar it appears to have JUY SIMPLEX with the following under the word SIMPLEX - RUSGOG but the S could be a 9 and the O could be a D. Can you interpret those letters ?<br />I can send you a photo if it is not possible to make anything out of the letters but would need your email address.<br />With thanks and hope you can help. I think it would be best if I can be sure of the Simplex model to sourse parts.<br />Thanks Barry Peterkin<br />bpsuper@bigpond.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06013355589455666810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8492685525705691186.post-27611765139960188722019-02-04T05:05:22.028-05:002019-02-04T05:05:22.028-05:00Dear Robert,
when I recently found this article w...Dear Robert, <br />when I recently found this article while I was trying to classify a SLJ 5000 that I received, it really delighted me as this was the first really comprehensive summary of the history of a Simplex component and after lecture an unambiguous assignment of the component was possible. Yes one model only and there are so many others out there....<br />As a very interested "Simplexologist" I can only congratulate to this most informative, precise and substantial article. And - I know which pain one has to go through in bringing up these details, specifically - you already mentioned it - because Simplex was not feeling bound to following their own rules which anyway sometimes appear quite weird. I know it must have been hours and hours of days searching, catalogue viewing, thinking, inspecting components repeatedly and closely finally believing you have understood and then fall into doubt just right after. In spite of all that I'm still a Simplex enthusiast (for whatever reason) at least for the components 'til mid 1980s. I think I have understood it means live time learning but never fully overcoming doubt. <br />Thanks again for this great piece of research and compilation. <br />Tobias Mundry Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com