Well, I think I worry just the right amount. :) Especially since positive experience stories and a brief look at the web-site make those worries go away. Thanks for letting me know your splitters work well for you.
The daVinci's look good, though I'll have to "over-buy" a little in order to support the growing number of cockpits I have to support (now that Andrew has enticed me into thinking Bullmoose; four bikes in one!). They don't apparently sell extra male halves piece-wise, so to support four bars I'd need to spend over $100 and end up with some extra stuff. Not out of the question, just not a no-brainer. (I've e-mailed them to see if they'll sell me exactly what I'd need.) And to really do it right I'd need to get some extra motolite hooked canoes for the front! Fortunately one does not have to do it *all* in order to do it *at all*. I can start with the two bars I have built-up and see if the splitters make enough difference to go whole hog with them. And I can see during that time whether extra hooked canoes might help or be worth it. The test-the-waters approach'll just cost me a few additional shipping dollars versus the plunge-right-in approach, even if I decide in the end to get everything anyway. And it'll spread the cost out over time. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean On Aug 11, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:37 -0700, Thomas Lynn Skean wrote: >> I'm going to look into the splitters. I'm not sure yet that I like the >> idea of having something more to concern myself about my braking >> system (for safety reasons) or my rear derailer (for precision >> reasons). I can readily trust the idea of a cable transferring my >> "tug" or "release" on it all the way to the brake or derailer. >> Tightening up the bolt on the brake or derailer to hold the cable is >> easy to observe and test. I'm less sanguine about the idea of a tiny >> doo-dad that *I* install and manipulate having the appropriate torque >> and stability for multiple connect-disconnect cycles without having a >> real problem at least once. Obviously they work; it's not like people >> are dying all over the country due to failures of these connectors. >> But those connectors are not used/maintained by me! :) >> > > You worry too much. You unscrew it all the way and it comes apart. You > screw it together all the way and it is fastened, and there is no loss > of shifting precision. Those splitters are extremely precisely made, > which explains why they cost so much for their insignificant size. I've > used them. "Proper torque" is you screw it tight without tools until > it's screwed home and it bottoms out. At least, that's how the ones I > have work. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
