I love the image of the peanut gallery here! So besides the price of entry for the RD itself, there is the cost of the lever (any other hardware?), and designing a custom built bike around it or retrofitting a frame with an appropriate braze-on and cable guide, which would probably also mean repainting the retrofitted frame or at least part of it. It’s a big commitment.
The mechanism itself looks super cool, but it is also a bonafide example of a proprietary component, which is what makes it hard for me to consider. I like being able to easily swap parts out, even (or especially) fancy parts. On Monday, December 12, 2022 at 6:56:18 PM UTC-5 Garth wrote: > I'm all peanut gallery on this one. I'm reminded of a Canadian rock band I > listened to as a teen named Max Webster. They had an album called "High > Class in Borrowed Shoes". I never really related much to that title until > right now...... and how underneath the inflated image of "high class" > resides the person, place or thing as it truly is. In this case, it's > "just" a derailleur regardless of the sales pitch and inflated sense of > worthiness. Not to diminish the "just", I mean that as the authenticity of > Existence. A derailleur is a marvelous and ingenious thing and no amount of > over or under inflating can change that. > > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d44875ac-b25b-42ab-ab02-ed48e3b4960fn%40googlegroups.com.
