While checking on the weight of an old Huret Jubilee derailleur (145 gm [http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Huret\_Jubilee\_derailleur_2248.html](http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Huret_Jubilee_derailleur_2248.html) ), I came across this
"Brian Eno once confessed that he liked to explain to ‘young people’ that, back in the bad-old-low-tech-flared-trousered-analogue days things were so backward that you could fly from London to New York in three and a half hours and men regularly walked on the Moon. He might have added that you could buy an off-the-peg touring derailleur that weighed 145g."
Oct. 25, 2019, 4:23 p.m. - taprider
While checking on the weight of an old Huret Jubilee derailleur (145 gm [http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Huret\_Jubilee\_derailleur_2248.html](http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/Huret_Jubilee_derailleur_2248.html) ), I came across this "Brian Eno once confessed that he liked to explain to ‘young people’ that, back in the bad-old-low-tech-flared-trousered-analogue days things were so backward that you could fly from London to New York in three and a half hours and men regularly walked on the Moon. He might have added that you could buy an off-the-peg touring derailleur that weighed 145g."