Prior to a group ride last night I spoke with a an early arriving rider who not only made me feel alien for a steel frame but was amazed at the danger I courted for not having brifters. He felt bar end shifters were more dangerous than DT levers. I did not tell him they were friction.
He asked if my bike was really that old or if I had it made that way. It was incomprehensible to him that all the "up to the moment" gear was not to everyone's preference. I started recalling a reader here or at iBOB who said a group ride considered banning non brifter bikes for being "unsafe". This ride included a not allowed by UCI TT bike with pronghorn bars. I did not see that gentleman after the start and rode the majority of the miles with a friend on a metallic framed bike. We gravitate to each other in groupings where buying power fails to equate riding skills. The latest hot set-up cannot overcome that. Riding my Rambouillet in friction mode didn't slow me down up the hills, down the hills or in tight groups. I like it that way and am hard pressed to pick a drivetrain for my project bike that is starting fabrication today in Brooklyn. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 1:41:24 PM UTC-4, Drw wrote: > > once set up, I like indexing marginally more than friction.... but ive > found that the freedom and ease of mixing and matching parts that friction > allows makes my life so much easier that it vastly outweighs any minor > benefits of indexing. I'd only friction shift up to 9 speed though, and > preferably 8. > -- 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.
