Avast, heretic! This be week two (to be precise: this is the 8th day of receipt) and I've put 85 miles on it -- not a lot, but work has been busy.
I hope to swap out the egregiously wide 160 mm Sugino for a more modestly endowed 150 or so (one hopes) Q'd 110 triple. As for the 13, I'd rather coast. Hell, after five or so years of almost exclusively fixed gear riding, coasting feels, well, decadent, somehow. And, I just ordered VO's discounted 45 mm alum fenders, a stem-clamp-bolt-mount decaleur for the Ostrich and a VO non-Pletscher 2-leg stand. Ordinarily I frown on kickstands, but the SH has a kickstand plate that, metaphysically, demands a stand to bolt to it. The Greenfield is worth f-all when you have loaded rear panniers. And now I am scheming to rig up a dynolight. The Nashbar front rack prevents me, mercifully, from using the ancient Sankya bottle, so I am waiting to snag a good deal on a DN72. On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 2:16 PM, doug peterson <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > Patrick: > > Is this the second or third week with the new bike? We all knew you > wouldn't leave things alone! I agree the 11-32 8 speed is no good for > touring. At least you decided to keep the triple! I'm not qualified > to get into a theological discussion with you but I'd keep the 13. A > bit of tailwind, a slight downgrade. It can be handy, and will look > better than another spacer :). > > dougP > > On Mar 6, 10:25 am, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Today I'm taking the Sam Hill to the LBS to have the Deore rear 8/9/10 sp > > freehub body exchanged for a (scavenged; thanks Ryan) 7 sp one. And, if I > > can find a way to do so, I'll toss the present 13 outer and have a > > 15-17-19-21-26-32 6 speed, with an extra spacer or two at the big end. > For > > why? One, to put the 19 right in line with the outer 46, for a 68" > > non-touring cruising gear (Jack Browns). I will keep the 36 since the > > remaining 67" -- 32" range will probably be nice on long uphills with a > > touring load. And there remains the 26 inner when I am tempted to despair > > and give up. But for about town riding, the 46/19 X 28" wheel gives me > the > > ideal, the classic, nay the ultima ratio and ne plus ultra of all-rounder > > gears and, if I am feeling effete, I can get a full 85" down to 40" on > the > > outer. Gad, the excess! > > > > The other reason is that my mind still boggles at three (3!!!) rings and > six > > (6!!!) cogs: what shall I do with this excess? I dislike, for theological > > reasons, having unused cogs on my cassette, and anything north of 15 is > > pretty useless to me. If I keep the 13, it will simply be as an annoying > but > > necessary spacer for the 15. > > > > The original 11-32 8 speed is just, how to put it, crazy. 46X11 = 117". > Even > > Eddy didn't have such a gear! The 46X13 is an overkill 99". Fausto would > > have sneered. The 15 brings things down to a merely athletic level. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Dustin Sharp <paleo.v...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Yup, I pretty much ride mine as a 1x9 until the hills come. I'm running > > > 44-30 and 12-27. I do spin out on bigger hills and occasionally wish > for > > > something a bit easier for extreme grades. Maybe I should give 44-28 a > shot > > > with one of SRAM's 11-28 cassettes. > > > > > The other thing that makes this setup work well is having a big ring > that > > > is > > > positioned to let you use almost all of your gears. For me, 135 rear > > > spacing > > > and using the inner two rings of a Sugino XD triple with a 113 bb makes > for > > > a great chainline. > > > > > Dustin > > > > > > IMO a workable wide-range double uses the small ring only as a bail- > > > > out for the biggest climbs, and the big ring for everything else. > > > > Something like 44/24 x 12-xx would work pretty well for me. > > > > > > Bill > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > . > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscrib...@googlegroups.com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > > > -- > > Patrick Moore > > Albuquerque, NM > > For professional resumes, contact > > Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com > > (505) 227-0523- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com (505) 227-0523 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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