On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 5:51:41 PM UTC-4, Larry H wrote: > > Are there any list members who are using or have in the past used low > normal derailers. For the uninitiated, these are derailers with a spring > that pulls the cage toward the largest cassette gear rather than the > smallest. It appears that Shimano has discontinued all of their low normal > derailers, but old stock is still available from various retailers. > > The nice thing would be that moving both Silver Shifters in the same > direction would downshift, making it easier to pedal on climbs. Also, if > your cable breaks, down you go to first gear rather than ninth (or > eighteenth or whatever). >
For that very reason, Riv was a proponent of low-normal derailleurs. All three of mine have 'em, the two w/ bar-end shifters and the one w/ downtube shifters. Actually, all three have the exact same model, a long cage XT model... (M760-SGS). There was talk shortly after their discontinuation, of a possible alteration that could be made to high-normal ones (a relocation of how the spring pulls) to convert them to low-normal, in order to maintain them as an option, but, there were issues in doing such, and they went away. So, a lot of Rivs have them, up until the past year or so. -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
