I prefer records and friction shifting. Records are just what I grew up with - same with friction shifting on the Schwinn I rode back in the day. I have CDs, stream music, and am fine with the index shifters some of my recent bikes have had. And yet, there is a sense of grace and connectedness to my Sam of the Hills Borne with friction shifting. I like starting off from a stop standing up with hands at the front of the albastache bar, sitting back in the saddle, hands sliding back and upshifting to get back to speed. How many times have I done this? - the simple enjoyment never gets old.
Records kept clean and stored well are a similar pleasure. I understand the reason people like the new reissues on 180 gram vinyl, but I'll look for an original pressing, *with* the original inner sleeve thank-you-very-much. To the other comments about hi fi - I tend towards the British and PRAT. Tony On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 7:29:46 AM UTC-7, Jim S. wrote: > > I have been reading a new book that might be of interest to group members: > *The > Revenge of Analog *by David Sax. So far, the author has discussed the > revival of vinyl records just when it appeared that the MP3 had conquered > vinyl forever. I think he's going to take it to other areas as well. > > I see parallels between a preference for vinyl records and a preference > for friction shifting, among other things. (It could be that I just spend > too much time thinking about bikes.) > > > -- 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.
