Sujet : Re: Helping a tourist with STI problems
De : am (at) *nospam* yellowjersey.org (AMuzi)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 23. May 2025, 18:22:58
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On 5/23/2025 12:07 PM, pH wrote:
On 2025-05-23, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
On 5/22/2025 9:40 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/22/2025 5:01 PM, pH wrote:
On 2025-05-22, Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
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<snip good deed adventure>
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To me, it's justification for my preference for bar end
shifters for
touring. I prefer simple devices with only visible problems.
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Well, it just so happens that bar end shifters are God's
favourite.
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If they're good enough for Him they're good enough for
me. I have one
SunTour and one Rivendell on my road bike at the moment.
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Friction shifting,, by the way...no indexing.
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Agreed!
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Well, one bike has them indexing; but I sometimes set it to
friction mode when the indexing gets unreliable.
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I have one index bike, a Raleigh Sports 3 speed. No friction
mode; shifts perfectly for the last 54 years.
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Oooo! Is it the venerable 'AW' or one of the more rarer breeds? Isn't there
one that has an extra low low speed (can't really say "gear")?
I remember Jobst commenting that he kept an AW 3 speed body for his kids to
dis-assemble and assemble as a puzzle....
pH
Yes, an AW (as bicycle techs say, 'Always Works'). It's an astoundingly simple device and yes perfect for children as it's readily grasped.
Note similarities here:
https://www.modeltcentral.com/transmission_animation.html(despite page title, there is no animation)
-- Andrew Muziam@yellowjersey.orgOpen every day since 1 April, 1971
Helping a tourist with STI problems
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