> Now I have recumbents with Sram grip-shifters. > Front and rear both shift precisely, but both take a pretty good grip > to operate.
Surprised to read this. My Rohloff shifts so easy I sometimes manage it to shift accidently when not paying close attention on long rides. On Feb 17, 5:56 pm, Joe Bernard <josephrbern...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I technically don't qualify for this list anymore unless we're talking > wool and pedals - the Riv gear I use on my recumbents - but I think > this topic is general enough for me to opine on. > > I think anyone who uses a rechargeable lighting system shouldn't be > too shy about electronic shifting. I feel it has its merits in > recreational riding, at least on the front. The easiest front shifting > I ever had was the friction bar-end on my Romulus. The downside was > having to constantly trim the FD because I shifted between the 3 rings > a lot in my hilly area. Big deal, right? Well, when compared to the > precise click-shifts I was getting in back, it bugged me on long > rides. So I switched to Ultegra STI, but the hand/wrist stress it took > for my small hands to operate the front shifter eventually agravated > an old back injury. Now I have recumbents with Sram grip-shifters. > Front and rear both shift precisely, but both take a pretty good grip > to operate. Again, this may be a result of my teeny-tiny hands, > something many women may relate to. The front in particular sometimes > takes a pretty strong grip to rotate if my hands are ensconced in > Riv's thick gloves. > > Point being, if I could put a shifting system on my bikes that was as > reliable as a Niterider light and would give me clean shifts without a > lot of hand pressure, I would consider it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
