Re: RE: Re: Fine Tuning Shifting

On 8/15/2024 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:

On Wed Aug 14 19:29:27 2024 zen cycle  wrote:

On 8/14/2024 3:35 PM, cyclintom wrote:

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I am willing to believe that Flunky raced friction shifters but that
his memory of that is so poor that he doesn't even remember how he did
it.

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Yes tom, I remember quite distinctly how I did it.
>

On the beginning of a YouTube video (about a race Lemond won)
there was a HEADER showing a freewheel frcition setup going through
the gears and there was perfectly distinct pauses between gears as the
power was shut down.

>
No, there isn't. If you have a link to this video that shows someone
stopping pedaling to shift, post it. You don't stop pedaling to shift,
ever, you fucking idiot.
>

What was also distinct about that video was that
racers did NOT follow as closely as they do now because of that large
variation in power causing accelerations to be rather spotty.

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You're the same guy who said down tube shifters are in the way of your
knees, and also said one must look down to shift down tube shifters. I
think it's pretty clear who is the one here that has no fucking clue
what he's talking about.
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    Greg LeMond was filmed looking down to shift friction shifters but you're so much better than him you don't need to. I wonder who it is that doesn't have a clue?

Even I ( never had a racing license) don't look at my gear levers.
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