I don't want to learn how to shoot a rifle and don't use friction shifting for the rear even though I know how to do it. I think hunting around for the next cog just because you can is silly, the clicks work.
On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 2:35:18 PM UTC-8 Tom Palmer wrote: > I am with Garth on this. Albatross and bar end shifters in friction mode > are easy peasy as long as the parts match or pretty close. My new Platypus > has 10 speed microshift bar ends, basic Deore deraiiler, mid range 10 speed > cassette, and basic Sram 10 speed chain o Albatross bars. > Shifting smooth and easy and if is chain chattering, move the shifter a > little. The new rider will learn to understand the way of shifting. They > also learn the value of not shifting on a small rise and hammering a bit to > keep momentum. > Similar (in my mind) to teaching someone to shoot a rifle. You do not > start with a magazine fed semi-automatic like a Ruger 10/22. They quickly > find firing rapidly, emptying the rifle id fun. They miss the basics of > lining up the sight, breath out and hold, relax, aim, shoot. The process of > racking a bolt for the next shot, or reloading a single shot, resets the > process of accurate shooting. Sorry for the long explanation, but rings > true to me. > Tom Palmer > Twin Lake, MI > > On Sunday, November 27, 2022 at 5:07:57 PM UTC-5 Garth wrote: > >> Give your friend friction shifters first for goodness sake. Don't sell >> them short in their abilities, people don't need or want to be treated as >> incapable. You don't have to buy expensive thumbshifters, Sunrace SLM10 and >> Falcon are ratcheting ones for $10-15 and include cables. The ratcheting >> mechanism is plastic, but for casual use they work just fine. I have bot. >> They feel quite nice in the hand and can be used on both road and mtb bars. >> >> I liken this to learning to drive. I learned with a manual transmission >> in high school drivers ed via a simulator trailer we had. When I actually >> got into a car with a manual tranny it was easy as pie. Should I have been >> "spared" the chance I'd be incapable of driving a car and shifting a manual >> transmission at the same time ? Let them shift, let them mis-take a few. >> With manual shifting these are easily corrected. When indexed shifting goes >> wonky and you have no idea how shifting works in the first place, you're >> helpless as you have idea why the thingy on the handlebar doesn't work or >> even what it does. >> > -- 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/a0046f01-af17-4597-9f45-dd42e8c8d729n%40googlegroups.com.
