FWIW: Have never used STI. It's beyond my technical envelope & budget.
-----Original Message----- From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com [mailto:rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of James Warren Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 9:31 AM To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBW] Re: Atlantis BB length: critical? The dark secret of STI. I don't know how it gets such a free ride on this score: it is just terrible for triples in the front. I wish the cycling world would acknowledge that in a bigger way. So limiting, so many compromises. And I like STI for the rear shift, but I won't use it, because of the front and the fact that I like chainring sizes of MY OWN choosing. All they'd have to do is put in a lot of fine trimming positions. The five or whatever they have now just doesn't cut it. -James On Feb 1, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: > > The affect on front shifting is negligible with friction shifting. In > our experience, it is almost impossible to get STI to work right on > the front of an Atlantis. > > On Jan 31, 11:04 pm, "Doug Peterson" <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: >> We had a thread a few days ago regarding correct BB length for an >> Atlantis. >> Riv's website says 107. Mine came with a 115. Standard build of >> Sugino XD >> crank w/24/36/46 rings, & 8 speed. There were several opinions >> regarding >> the real correct length, but it got me to thinking & checking (always >> a >> dangerous combo!). Anyway, as near as I can measure, it looks like >> rear >> chainline is around 44-45 mm & the front around 50. 5 mm seems a lot >> of >> difference. OTH, if Riv says 107 for the BB, that would get the >> front & >> rear nearly the same. It's close between the 24 granny & stay, but >> there's >> 5-6 mm clearance now. >> >> How critical is a straight chainline? Affect on front shifting? >> >> dougP > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
