I agree that it's probably a doctored up photo and just a prank. Everything about it - from wheel dish to this electronic shifting business - would seem an unlikely if not impossible concoction.
Having said that, and turning back to the subject of shifting for a moment, I just completed a restoration, and somewhat of a reconfiguration, of an old late-70's bike and it's now set up with a five-speed rear (13-23) and the Sugino high-low (40/26) that Riv sells. Now, unlike many of y'all on this blog, I live in an area that's relatively flat with the exception of some short "steep" climbs up the approaches to pedestrian bridges over expressways or railroad tracks and longer steep climbs (maybe 7%-8% grades) from river levels to the top of ridges, so a ten-speed set up like this more than suits may needs. I'm an old fart, ignore cadence for the most part, and ride in a 70" gear most of the time . If I'm on the bigger ring and need to climb one of those bridge approaches I shift it into a 53" gear and stand on the pedals all the way up. If I'm riding along on the flats and catching a stiff tail wind, I can use the largest 82" gear and be just fine. When I encounter one of those occasional climbs up the river banks I can shift down the the 26T, go into as low as a 30" gear, and spin my way up. All of this is to bring into question just why most of us really need all of those gears. Sure, there are those who live in mountainous regions who couldn't get by without triple chainrings, especially off-road mountain bikers. And what the highest and lowest gears are is a matter of age and personal preference. But the 9,10, & 11 tooth cassettes - really? Seems like another one of those things that the industry transposed to the consumer population. Racers would need that kind of set up since they have to match their speed with the rest of pack (and SIS shifting for the constant and rapid speed adjustments). But the rest of us - I just don't see it. On Saturday, August 19, 2017 at 10:02:08 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Proof, if more proof is required than just the funny-ness of it: Ask > yourself: what sort of dish, and what sort of rear OL spacing, would this > require? And the Q factor! > > Regarding razors: > http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-11056 > > On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Patrick Moore <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> ... >> >> But that "21 speed cassette" is obviously a prank. >> > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
