I have had low and high normal RDs on several bikes at the same time and lived to tell the tale!
I'd use some more low-norm but I seem to have inadvertently acquired quite a stash of XT high-norm. On 2/17/12, Earl Grey <earlg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- Cheers, David Redlands, CA ** “I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” -- 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.
