Description of the shifters on the Rivendell Bicycle Works website store: "Buying these means buying into an approach to gear that is curiously freakish these days, and has been for 35 years. It’s the idea that a mechanism or tool can be mechanically perfect and virtually unimprovable, while at the same time allowing its user to flub up a shift. Is a hammer less of a tool than an automatic nail gun? Is a campfire worse for cooking wieners than a microwave just because you can burn it or drop it? Is a shifter a worse shifter because it doesn’t reduce shifting to pushing levers until they click?
The SILVER2 X & O shifters are beautiful, mechanically honest (they don’t shift for you), and are anachronism in 2020, bound to baffle archeological bike geeks in 2060, when they can't find references to them in the'70s or '80s, yet they're clearly weird for any time after that. Friction shifting isn’t hard, but it takes practice, and these are the days when you can buy shifters that shift for you. It can never be said that these X & O shifters suck. They’re as good as you are, and not everybody can handle that. One of the images tomorrow is the best shifting advice ever published, and it will make friction shifting a breeze. You have to practice, but practice THIS way, and you'll be a more skillful shifter than any click-shifting pro." On Friday, November 29, 2019 at 11:18:00 PM UTC-5, Jim Bronson wrote: > > Are these available indexed? > > *ducks while running out of the room* > > > Jim > austin, tx, earth > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 9:45 PM dougP <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> The long awaited Silver 2 shifters have arrived, just in time for the >> holidays: >> >> https://www.rivbike.com/collections/shifting/products/kjalgjoihjga44451 >> >> The mounts for upright bars are delayed a bit but the shifters also work >> as bar ends & down tubes. Treat yourself to something nice; maybe buy a >> spare pair "just in case". Shifters sold individually so you can do all >> sorts of crazy things. See the website for which-goes-where. >> >> dougP >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/69360539-5b08-445a-8417-a6e5a4a57683%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/69360539-5b08-445a-8417-a6e5a4a57683%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > signature goes here > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/96028158-9f48-486f-84d2-52eafe087417%40googlegroups.com.
