Although I prefer DTs, I will say that BEs are clearly the most ergonomically designed. Way more than SIS. Truth is both system work fine and no one should sweat about it too much one way or the other.
Michael On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:11:58 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > It requires a slightly different technique, given that your hands don't > grasp the shifters in the same way. With BES I use my fist and palm to > shift, which gives very good control. With DTS it's my forefinger and > thumb, or rather the forefinger and the palm directly underneath this > finger, and the thumb; and this requires (until you get the habit) a more > conscious effort to shift decisively (as opposed to tentatively). But once > you get it, it works fine. BES remain easier, in the sense of being easier > to shift precisely. > > As for reach (I ride frames from 57 to 60) that has never really been a > problem for me. > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:09 PM, lungimsam <john1...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> If I love friction bar end shifting, will I find friction DT shifting >> just as easy and enjoyable? >> >> Never done it before, and seems like the reach may make it more difficult >> and looks like there's a big potential for knees banging into forearms >> while pedalling and reaching down to shift at same time. >> >> What's your experience been with DT shifting? >> >> -- >> 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.
