Huret Success Titanium - titanium upper and lower brackets marked with "T" inside a circle - forged light aluminum alloy shift arm - pivoting cable barrel mount - adjustable stop plate and demountable lower pivot bracket to accommodate either a 24 or 28 tooth maximum freewheel cog - 12 to 24 or 13 to 28 tooth freewheel capacity (adjustable) / 36 to 53 tooth front chain wheel capacity - rear body plate date code marked "MADE IN FRANCE 4875" for the forty-eighth week of 1975 - late model 1980 to 1984 Huret Super Success "drilled" and radiused stamped aluminum alloy pulley cage plates - model 2460 ... [UNUSED / BLEM - while this component has never been mounted onto a bicycle or used in conventional fashion, there is a light measure of "shop soiling" to be found in the form of a couple of places where the Black paint has been compromised on its outer face plate (...VERY minor and easily addressed with a 0000 fine brush, a dab of paint, and a steady hand), slight marking to the forward side of the upper pivot housing (...only visible upon close inspection at just the right angle), as well as the obvious fact that the "HURET" logo insert on that very same face plate is completely absent - the missing logo badge is entirely my fault to the extent that it was so loose that I thought it prudent to remove same for reattachment at some later date lest it otherwise become accidentally detached and lost - of course, in the chaos that was my move from the "Frozen Flatlands" out here to the "Chronically Cloudy Clime" last year, that very same logo plate managed to go missing (...go figure - but if and when I ever locate it, I will certainly send it along to whoever the appropriate party may be) - fortunately, one can also procure a replacement badge from a donor derailleur - my original intention was to use this particular component (...which I spent a LONG time searching for) in conjunction with a pet project bike of my own, but that project ended up going in an entirely different direction, thereby making this item sadly redundant from my perspective - most worthy of mention, perhaps, is the fact that this is one of the very earliest production Huret Success Titanium rear derailleurs you are likely to ever find, dating from the first week in December of 1975 - this advanced derailleur was truly "cutting edge" when introduced for public sale late that year (...its moniker begot of the fact that the Sonolor / Cycles Gitane team had ridden these specially modified Huret Challenger components "successfully" throughout the preceding 1974 season) and it arguably represents the pinnacle in both design and performance as achieved by the Huret brothers prior to a majority interest of their company being purchased by the German conglomerate Fichtel & Sachs AG in 1980 - indeed, the Huret Titanium Success proved to be one of the fastest shifting, lightest, and yet durable rear derailleurs available in its day, tipping the scales at a tidy 170 grams in stock trim and only slightly less than that after substituting a pair of late model Super Success "drilled" and radiused stamped aluminum alloy pulley cage plates (...of course, I suppose that my accidentally having lost that logo badge also shaves a few grams - but I would prefer that nobody write in to point that out) - note too that I am including both early (...fixed style) and late (...adjustable) model adapter plates to facilitate mounting into Campagnolo style threaded dropouts (…often quite difficult and pricy to find separately) - and finally, YES, this unit does come complete with the small Black plastic dust cover for the actuating spring (...part number 2485), but I simply forgot to place in back onto the derailleur prior to shooting the accompanying photographs - the not often seen Black plastic upper pivot bolt cap (...part number 2429) that everyone I knew of who rode these derailleurs "back in the day” quickly threw away before they either snapped off or were simply lost is NOT, however, included]
