On May 2, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Scott Loveless wrote: >> http://www.gdgphoto.com/bsj-8/ > > Thanks, Godfrey. I did a little googling and found that the San > Jose is > often converted with the Nexus gears. Quite a few shops apparently do > the conversions on spec. Keeping in mind that touring is an eventual > goal, I wonder how that gear set would work for me.
The guy who built mine picked what I have to say is just about perfect gearing. I'm neither a fit 25 year old racer boy nor do I intend to go on cross country rides with it, but for the day-to-day 3-10 mile jog around the valley and that occasional 'cart the bike over to Santa Cruz and deal with the hills for 20-30 miles' kind of use, it works brilliantly with eight useful gear ratios. I think it's beautiful too, and the pleasure of being able to just twist the gear control when you've forgotten to shift down properly to a traffic light stop is very much appreciated. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
