On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 06:32 -0800, newenglandbike wrote: > I have low-normal derailleurs on a couple of my bikes. So much > better than high-normal IMHO. >
Fine if: - you have them on all your bikes - you never have to change back If either of those two conditions is false, you are so screwed. Especially so since, as I understand it, they've been discontinued. That means at some point you *will* be forced to change back -- at which point, as I said, you are so screwed. By screwed I mean confusion as to the correct means to upshift or downshift. I've been through all this before, with front derailleurs. I used to use backwards-acting SunTour front derailleurs: SL, CompeV. I changed back almost 20 years ago, and even to this day once or twice a year I go the wrong way and end up shifting to the big ring when I meant to go to the granny. If you try to mix within the fleet, you will suffer constant confusion and will blow shifts by going in the wrong direction all the time. High normal works perfectly well. Any improvement would be trivial at best, in my opinion, and couldn't begin to compensate for the mental confusion these ass-backwards rear derailleurs cause. -- 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-bunch@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.
