Hey RDS. I'm really not loving the shifters. I'll preface that with the fact that I come from a road background and have only ever ridden indexed rear shifting. I had my front der, down tube shifter on my LHT set up in friction for custom trimming, but never the rear. So on the Clem maybe I'm an inexperienced friction shifter but I often experience mis shifts, especially under load. You know when you "down shift" (easier gear) at the base of a climb and then part way up you realize you need to go easier, it's tricky to finesse the der to the next gear. The shifter clicks, the chain clunks and skips, you give it another click and it can't find the chainline, you move the shifter back up and then it goes back in to the gear that was too hard, and then you loose your momentum, then you slow down and then you start to swear. This doesn't happen when up shifting and it must have to do with those clicks. The shifters only click when down shifting. My next upgrade should be bar end shifters with the rear set indexed. I don't want to pay attention to rear derailer alignment I just want to flick it and go. Front I like to trim as mentioned. It would also be nice to free up some bar space but bar ends would require getting cork grips and I hope I like them as much as the cheap rubber Clem ones cuz those are awesome ! Seriously.
The tires are the stock ones that come on the complete build and are Kenda kwick 29x2.0. I don't have calipers but by my eye and a tape measure they seem to measure a bit over 50mm. The fenders are planet bike cascadia 29ers. They claim max tire size of 29x2.3 which I could see as I have a bit of wiggle room. If you're debating which fenders to get and want to see different options on the bike, check out this folder because I tried three different ones before settling on the Cascadias. https://flickr.com/photos/137638381@N05/sets/72157660720878839 I don't mind the look of them and they have good coverage. I just picked up some nomad resist 700x45 tires and probably won't go bigger than 50 and wouldn't mind trying some velo orange 60mm fender of some style, to class it up a bit. -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
