Frequent comments in early Riv Readers were on the vanity of excessive shifting, and that, with click shifting built into your brake levers, you were likely to shift far too often.
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:43 PM, El Sapo <charlesreese...@comcast.net> wrote: > Riv has not been too concerned with shifting. Maybe around the time of the > Simple One release, it seems like I saw a picture of a stick in someone's > hand described as a shifter and another story about a guy sitting on the > ground with his rear wheel off the bike and the passing bikers saying > "Rivendell gear change." > > > > On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 5:43:29 PM UTC-8, Joe Bernard wrote: > >> I've run Ultegra bar-ends on Albas for many miles. You'll notice the bars >> suddenly being longer on mounts/dismounts and sharp turns, but it becomes a >> thing you unconsciously adjust for after a few rides. I've tried lots of >> different types of shifters, but always gravitate back to bar-ends 'cause >> they're so dang easy to reach and grab. Plus you get lots of room on the >> bar for alternate hand positions. I even put them on my new Clem with >> Boscos, but haven't ridden enough to know if this is going to work on such >> a long-reach-back bar. I'll keep y'all posted! > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
