Heh. Mine are the plain version, not the Arabesque, but yeah, I see. I have run 8s Shimano barcons, and didn't notice any roughness there, nor with 8s or 9s Shimano DT shifters, but they may have changed.
Funny, I remember when I bought my first new bike after five years off (this would have been around '94 or so) I noticed it had indexed shifting and asked the salespern if there was any way to disable it. It's all good. On Sunday, August 17, 2014 12:09:12 PM UTC-4, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Grant isn't talking about your pre-indexed 600s, Andrew. He's most > certainly not denigrating your 1985 600s (Arabesque!). Grant is talking > about today's current alternative to Silvers from Riv, which is Shimano > barcons. Shimano Barcons have a texture to them in friction mode, a little > roughness. It's not bad and it's not a problem. Your 1985 Shimano 600s > are fine, butter smooth, and you are right, practically never self-loosen. > I have a theory why that is, but it doesn't particularly matter. They work > fine, as do the Silvers, as do Shimano barcons. Shifting derailers is > easy, about as difficult as tying ones own shoes. We're in this weird > world where everybody is handwringing that tying shoes is too complicated, > so everyone uses velcro shoes, or slip ons (brifters or electronics). We, > the shoe tyers (tie-ers? tiers?), the people who choose to tie their own > shoes are here discussing the relative merits of cloth vs leather vs string > shoestrings. They are all fine. Thank goodness we have the choices that > we have right now. > > On Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:36:09 AM UTC-7, Andrew Marchant-Shapiro wrote: >> >> Rougher? Having used both the 600s and silvers, I must disagree with the >> esteemed Grant P. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
