On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 06:20 -0700, MichaelH wrote:
> The long cables, long rear derailleur cage,
> and the need to move each separately from the shifter back to the bar
> before I can reach for the other shifter causes too much delay and I
> end up with too much pressure to drop the chain, or I shi
I am considering a switch to thumbies on our tandem. I am finding the
BEs too slow on the tandem for the kind of rolling hills of Vt, which
require a lot of fast, double shifts to attack hills that often swing
from minus to plus 10%. The long cables, long rear derailleur cage,
and the need to mov
