I watch Europsport live cycling coverage all the time and to further the "mech" term, in racing when a rider suffers a dropped chain and/or any gearing issue they refer to it as "having a mechanical".... a malfunction of drivetrain. It happens more than ever these days. With many if not most teams using electric shifting it's not something the rider has any control over. If it's simply a dropped chain and not jammed they can fix that themselves but if it has anything worse, or the electronics themselves they have to wait for another bike. Isn't that the shit-takke ? Even tire changes have become painfully slow to watch with thru axles. The mechanics then must use electric screwdrivers for the bolts, or it would take forever by hand. And those malfunction too. Battery operated crap ! It's faster to take another bike. Then again, I don't watch these races for the bikes, I frankly never really notice them lest when the frame focuses on some failure. I like the pictures, the scenery, the people along side the road. Even in rural places, the locals show up just give the riders a hand of support. Cycling racing is really effing hard. You'll never see that in Umerika. Umerikan culture in may ways is just weird, just effing weird.
On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 9:13:30 PM UTC-4 Nick Payne wrote: > It's an English term for derailleurs that's been around for decades. I can > remember seeing it in English cycling magazines in the 1970s when I first > became interested in cycling. > > Nick Payne > -- 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/f264183a-01b4-48ac-a723-16187c427a4bn%40googlegroups.com.
