Hi Tim, Steve is correct. This winter I talked a friend of mine into going on a week long self supported tour. He ran out and bought an LHT frame and then started buying parts for it. He ended up with a 10 speed mess. I run a 9-speed mountain cassette, rear der, and road bar end shifter. He was trying to do the same, but with 10-speed. He came to me when it didn't work and I was stumped. He just figured he would be going friction shifting from then on. I dug in and researched the problem. Shimano changed the ratio of cable pull to deraileur movement on their 10-speed mountain but left their road alone. So the way to look at it is Shimano 8,9,&10 speed road shifters will work with 8 and 9 speed mountain deraileurs and 8, 9, and 10 road or mountain cassettes. My buddy took an 8-speed derailleur off his old mountain bike and put it on his 10-speed system and it worked great. I am planning on sticking with 9-speed. It all works and you can still buy all the pieces new.
I have 8-speed silver friction on my AHH. I like it. It kind of goes with the AHH attitude. Scott On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 8:38:33 PM UTC-6, Tim Butterfield wrote: > > I've been thinking of getting a Rivendell bicycle for a long time. I > first joined this group to lurk back in 2010 and have been a member and > sometimes lurker since then. But, I had not made the commitment and > purchased a Riv. The closest I came was getting a Velo-Orange Rando. That > was sort of rivish. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/timbutterfield/sets/72157624827193423 > > Being in the suburbs of Chicago near O'Hare airport limited my comfort > using it the way it should have been. That bike was sold before I left > Chicago to live full-time in an RV. Once we decided to settle in > Anacortes, WA (still in the RV), I purchased a Specialized AWOL Comp, > definitely not rivish. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/timbutterfield/sets/72157644371355428 > > It's a nice bike, but I now want something more rivish, this time, the > real thing. I'm thinking of getting either the Roadeo or the A Homer > Hilsen. I like the idea of the liveliness and sportiness of the Roadeo, > but like the bit of extra versatility of the AHH also. With my weight at > 200+ (PBH 33" or 83.8cm, age 51), I'm leaning towards the AHH instead of > the Roadeo. I can start more roadish with the AHH and, as I build my > abilities further, expand the bike to fit new and/or different tasks > without having to change frames. > > So, I'm fairly settled on getting my first Riv, one of the two mentioned. > My pondering now is mostly on how to appoint it. My Rando was more modern > with the 105 setup. The AWOL was definitely modern with discs and SRAM > setup. But, I'm not tied to that. Though I haven't used it much, I like > the looks of a quill stem, drop bars, and downtube shifters. It looks > clean and simple. I'm just not sure what it's like to live with. I expect > that, like many things, it is a matter of adapting to it. But, using DT > shifters or bar ends does set a direction as neither would work with an > 11-speed I could have instead. I'm trying to consider the pros and cons of > each. > > With my AWOL, I leave it locked to the cabana just outside my RV. Some > RVs have sufficient inside storage for a bike. Mine doesn't. > > My questions to the group are these: As I am not yet doing longer > distances, are there still benefits to the more traditional setups? If I > pick either one, what might I later miss the other may have provided? Are > there likely to be any weather related or other wear issues leaving a Riv > locked to the RV park cabana like I do my AWOL? I'm doubtful of that, but > don't want to mistreat it either. Any thing else I should consider? > > Thanks for any advice you have. > > Tim > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
