Re: [RBW] Re: Best sellers-worst sellers

2012-02-18 Thread William
Tennyson was always a couple steps more confusing than shifting. I never felt so screwed with Tennyson though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-ow

RE: [RBW] Re: Best sellers-worst sellers

2012-02-18 Thread Marc Schwartz
I remember reading in an old Riv Reader that Charlie Cunningham regularly "writes backwards" to this same purpose. Marc "chewing gum and walking at the same time" Schwartz From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com [rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] on beha

Re: [RBW] Re: Best sellers-worst sellers

2012-02-17 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 07:23 -0800, William wrote: > Rats! I'm so screwed and I didn't even know it. For both reasons. > Here I was in the bliss of ignorance. No longer. She left the web, she left the loom; She made three paces thro' the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the

Re: [RBW] Re: Best sellers-worst sellers

2012-02-17 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 07:29 -0800, Earl Grey 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 sa

Re: [RBW] Re: Best sellers-worst sellers

2012-02-17 Thread PATRICK MOORE
I always got confused with my low normal, tho' it shifted beautifully (even if, often, in the wrong direction). I suppose I would eventually have gotten used to it except that the other derailleurs I had were high normal and this fact screwed up the learning curve. A matter of taste and personal m

Re: [RBW] Re: Best sellers-worst sellers

2012-02-17 Thread cyclotourist
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 wrote: > I am hoarding the last silver (painted) low normal XT derailers. Th

Re: [RBW] Re: Best sellers-worst sellers

2012-02-17 Thread William
Rats! I'm so screwed and I didn't even know it. For both reasons. Here I was in the bliss of ignorance. No longer. 3 reverse action bikes + 3 normal action bikes. Lots of things confuse me (lots and lots). Shifting a rear derailer is not one of them. -- You received this message b

Re: [RBW] Re: Best sellers-worst sellers

2012-02-17 Thread Steve Palincsar
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 s