"I like the idea of doing it myself, and I don't want a machine to take it over for me!"
As I get older I also find myself leaning more toward simple over complex. Complex can be wonderfully convenient until it fails, and I've had two indexing failures. My first shifter fail was 9-sp Campy Chorus brifters. I disassembled them to replace the worn G springs and to my shame, was unable to reassemble them, so had to take them to a bike shop (I'm stubborn about doing all my own wrenching, and this was before I was aware of youtube videos on everything). Also on that bike I was running Shimano freewheels so had to be overly clever in changing cog spacer widths (thanks Sheldon) to make the setup shift smoothly with Campy brifters. My next indexing failure was on a Shimano Bar-con, where the solution was simply to lift the D ring and rotate the barrel to 'friction'. I never gave indexing much thought after that, as it was a solution to a problem I didn't have. I guess indexing and electronic shifting have their place, but not for the kind of riding I do. Jack - Seattle On Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 6:56:48 AM UTC-7, Dave Grossman wrote: > > I'm back to friction almost exclusively now and I am tired of fiddling > with indexing setups. I like the idea of set and forget and I love the > idea of really having to be in tune with the bike to shift. My Jones has > 11 speed XT which does shift really nicely, but when I get back to friction > on the Hunq I never worry about being out and having an issue arise. > > I kind of find it to be a Luddite vs Industrialization argument, without > the machine smashing. I like the idea of doing it myself, and I don't want > a machine to take it over for me! > -- 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.
