Hahaha .. this is funny ...
I made my stand with 7 speeds in the 90's. I bought a bunch of 7 speed
Sachs freewheels and have collected spare cogs and bodies along the way :)
I tired 8 and 9 .. I thought h why ? lolMore isn't
better ... it's just more . More shifting ...
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http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/shimano-sora-and-tourney-2013-first-look-33204/
*http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/shimano-sora-and-tourney-2013-first-look-33204/
On Sunday, September 2, 2012 8:19:38 AM UTC-7, Garth wrote:
Hahaha .. this is funny ...
I made my stand with 7 speeds
Indeed... perhaps there is hope for the world. I applaud any corporate
acknowledgment that for many cyclists 7 speeds is enough.
7. Good for stems *and* cogs!
However, there are still dark forces at work. I really hope the diamond frame
bicycle we know and love is *not* replaced by the
There are many new hybrid/city bikes with 7-speed trigger shifters that
works very well. Those wide range Shimano freewheels are of quite bad
quality in my experience, they wear out fast.
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Could the world finally be coming to its senses? Is the trend reversing???
IS THERE HOPE FOR THE WORLD? Maybe... this is certainly a positive
sign. Let's just hope Shimano keeps it real, and doesn't throw in some
funky twist, like electronic shifting (exaggeration)...
On Tuesday,
Wasn't 7 speed the standard when STI was first sold? It's been around
so long that it's easy to find riders who've never ridden anything
else.
dougP
On Aug 28, 9:17 am, Joe Bernard joerem...@gmail.com wrote:
All I know is from this Harris Cyclery tweet. Years ago Grant asked for a
7-speed
It was first sold as Dura-Ace 8-speed, but yes, everything else was 7 at
the time. There was eventually a 7-speed RSX STI group.
On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 4:45:31 PM UTC-7, dougP wrote:
Wasn't 7 speed the standard when STI was first sold? It's been around
so long that it's easy to find
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 16:45 -0700, dougP wrote:
Wasn't 7 speed the standard when STI was first sold? It's been around
so long that it's easy to find riders who've never ridden anything
else.
No, that came in with Dura Ace 8.
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If this trend keeps up, we can look forward to a six and five speed
freewheel from Shimano. ;-)
I never have regretted putting the six-speed Sachs freewheel on my LongLow
14 years ago... it still runs like a champ, and the cogs are perfectly
spaced.
- Andrew, Berkeley
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:57 PM, BSWP ashtab...@gmail.com wrote:
If this trend keeps up, we can look forward to a six and five speed
freewheel from Shimano. ;-)
6sp Shimano FWs are still in production, AFAIK!
http://sheldonbrown.com/harris/freewheels.html#6
Best,
joe broach
portland, or
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