I agree it would mess me up but my wife is an inexperienced cyclist and I think she might appreciate a universal direction on "easy" and "hard" when she gets bar ends pretty soon...
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/23/2015 10:15 AM, Montclair BobbyB wrote: >> >> Ah, I got it...thanks. Funny, I felt we all kinda got snookered by >> Shimano into at least trying low normal back when they were really forcing >> this (it kinda felt like "Why?.. Cuz we said so"...). And although I used >> them for a few years on my mountain bikes, I was admittedly relieved when >> Shimano backed off, and by then I had switched to using mostly SRAM, which >> had always stuck with the high normal derailleurs. >> >> It wasn't until I read a suggestion from Sheldon Brown on using low normal >> derailleurs with bar end shifters (so that upshifts and downshifts for both >> front and rear derailleurs moved in the same direction) that I jumped back >> on the bandwagon. This is the more common shifting pattern for me, and it >> seems to feel natural. >> >> BUT... I do admit that I often get on a bike and have to shift in the >> wrong direction to remind myself whether I'm riding low or high normal... No >> big deal. > > > No big deal until it's a pressure situation and you try to sweep the block > and end up in your lowest gear when you meant to get to your highest, or > vice versa. Then all of a suddy it's a huge deal. Perhaps the potential for > disaster is worse going the wrong way with front shifts -- that's my legacy > of the Compe V. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Keep the metal side up and the rubber side down! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
