Those rubber shift lever covers were made for DT levers, but always seemed pretty pointless.
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/700c/aaaPA180005.jpg> However, they're absolutely necessary on bar end shifters to protect the top tube paint. On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:16:52 AM UTC-6, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Yeah, the one bike (Fargo) with BES has a big wad of bar tape padding on > the top tube where the Silver shifters would otherwise contact the paint -- > this tape is scarred from many contacts. Such contacts also annoyingly > shift the levers which is something I have to anticipate when I first get > on and go -- don't want to stand on the pedal and have the chain slam into > the wrong gear. > > AND I broke a Silver shifter when the bike fell over ... > > All that said, the BES are easier to shift precisely, which is good on > rough terrain. > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Clayton.sf <clayt...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> One (to me) huge advantage is the fact that DT are fairly well protected >> whereas bar end shifters live in a fairly exposed place when it comes to >> crashing, leaning, falling over. With a little practice both work just fine. >> >> Clayton, SF >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > *[I]n exploring the physical universe man has made no attempt to explore > himself. Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to > destroy consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? what are his > needs? how can he best express himself? one would discover that merely > having the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in > electric light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing > so.”* > * > -- George Orwell, Pleasure Spots* > > *Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, > I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have > the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and > though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not > money, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and > though I give my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me > nothing. Money suffereth long, and it is kind; money envieth not; money > vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh > not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in > iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all > things, endureth all things. . . . And now abideth faith, hope, money, > these three; but the greatest of these is money. * > * > -- George Orwell, Keep The Apidistra Flying* > -- 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/d/optout.
