I recall reading a book perhaps 25 years ago about a couple of British brothers who, some 35-40 years ago, bought a couple of custom steel touring bikes to take on a huge, lengthy tour of Asia; at least the subcontinent, and Afghanistan too, I think.
Anyway, their bikes were built by a well-known name whom I forget, and they chose double cranksets with no front derailleurs for the sake of "simplicity," choosing instead to carry little wire hooks to grab and move the chain from small to big ring after they'd kicked it with heel from big to small ring. This was described at some length in the book. Aside, but during the 2 years or so I owned my Ken Rogers British racing tricycle, I rode it as a 1X with granny without front derailleur; the granny used only occasionally. But the trike was different, since besides kicking the chain to the small ring with your heel, as you can do with any 2-wheeler, the 3 wheels give you the stability to reach down at very low speeds and delicately pick up the chain with your thumb and index finger to place it on the big ring, without fear of veering or falling over. In fact, I recall once stopping dead on a hill, and reaching way down to guide the *bottom* run of the chain onto the big ring while I backpedaled; can't do *that* with 2 wheels! On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 11:00 AM Paul M <mottpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > ..... Stick shifting is the only way to go if your frame doesn't have a > left side cable stop and your running a double crankset. Whatever gets you > down the road.... > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgtUsjArAxzpJYAphYT_tAYZDyRWhM%3D5aBNQnvR86H57-g%40mail.gmail.com.
