Re: Disc brake maintenance tips

Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> writes:

On Mon Jul 8 14:59:48 2024 Zen Cycle  wrote:

On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:52:28 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

Shifting a TT bar end is nothing like shifting a downtube shifter.

 
I find it to pretty much identical, except that my hands don't have to
leave the bars. The left shifts the chainring, the right shifts the
cogset,  away/down for smaller and back/towards for larger
 

They are the same mechanism with a mdifferent mount but you are
looking forward the whole time and not looking down to the levers
where you might throw the left lever meaning to throw the right.

 
Oh dear gawd....
 
I have never met anyone who ever confused the shifters, even back in my
very early days of racing with cat 4s when half of us had chainring
'tattoos' on our right calf.
 
So, No, tom. No one with even the slightest competence confuses the
right and left shifter...maybe you did, but that's you, the same idiot
who advises 'you have to pause pedaling to shift'. As noted elsethread:
You are beyond the shadow of a doubt the _last_ person in this forum I
would ever even entertain taking advice from on _any_ issue.
 
 

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Thanks for showing us that you have never actually ridden downtube
shifters. It gets very tiresome to read your comments about things you
don't know about. Right handers shiftr BOTH downtube shifters with the
same hand as do lefties. Everyone that has EVER used downtube shifters
knows that. You are always looking down to make sure you're shifting
the correct lever!

How would you get the wrong lever?  I move my right hand from the right
to the left until it hits the downtube, then down just a bit until I
feel the right lever.  It's the one on the right.  The left shifter is,
um, on the left of the downtube.

I'm waiting for your lies to fly. That you did too ride downtube
shifters in races in a pack.

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