I am hoarding the last silver (painted) low normal XT derailers. They are decent looking, work great, and can be had pretty cheap. I think low normal is a great idea. I don't think you necessarily need to have the whole fleet set up the same way, IF you use different shifters with the different derailers. FWIW, my mtn tandem has a high normal derailer, a flat bar, and rapid fire shifters, and it causes no confusion with my low normal, friction-shifted bikes.
Gernot Chiang Mai, Thailand On Feb 17, 9:43 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > 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.
