The late, great Sheldon Brown on the same subject in one of his threads referred to rear deraillers as "jumpers," which he said was the African-American term for that component. In similar manner, he called cassettes "kah-septs" which he attributed to the French for some reason. Hmmm...seems to be a bit of similarity here, but then there is what the early mountain biking crews referred to a chain that had over shifted the front derailler as "chain suck." Go figure.
On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 1:36:50 PM UTC-5 lconley wrote: > In 54 years of working on bicycles with derailleurs, I had never used or > heard them referred to as "mechs" until the last year or so. Where did this > come from? Does it only refer to non-electronic derailleurs? > > Laing > Old guy in Delray Beach FL > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d1c3426c-c8ce-43e4-9236-d3037502306cn%40googlegroups.com.
