I've been getting really tolerant of slop, and it's gotten beyond just the cleanliness. My Ram is currently not only dirty, but the indexing (9-speed rear) seems a bit off, but I don't care enough to fix it. And I'm not putting it in friction mode either! What's going on is that the bike will "stay in gear", but on the higher gears, the one-to-one correspondence between derailleur position and shifter position is not always consistent. But 9 speeds is so many that I tend not to care. It's in some gear, and I know I can get to the lower ones when I need to. Sometimes 4 clicks gets me back to the 3rd highest gear, and sometimes those same 4 clicks gets me to the 4th highest gear. I'll fix it later. "Later" has stretched on for a couple of months now. I still have a big gear range, and when I pedal, the bike goes.
-Jim W. -----Original Message----- >From: CycloFiend <cyclofi...@earthlink.net> >Sent: Jun 29, 2010 12:35 PM >To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: [RBW] Whenever I see a photo of Grant's bikes, I want to clean >them! > >on 6/29/10 7:43 AM, Mojo at gjtra...@yahoo.com wrote: > >> http://www.rivbike.com/assets/payloads/317/original_grim_three.jpg >> I think the above URL should be changed from grim to grime! >> >> I like getting my bikes dirty, but it is not alot of work to clean >> them afterward. >> Drivetrain grime especially gets in the way of crisp shifting. >> And I paid a heck-of-alot-of-moola for that JB paint job! >> Nice bikes deserve to be cleaned. And even my beatup 1966 3-speed is a >> nice bike in my book. >> Of course this says alot more about me than Grant. > >The old mtb axiom was "dirty bike, clean drivetrain". > >And "clean drivetrain" can certainly be a range. :^) > >In these parts (north of SF), and pretty much up and down California, we >start getting mid-summer fine dust on every trail that is pretty pervasive. >Any slightly damp bit in the drivetrain attracts it. By this time of year, >if the rollers of the chain are silver, I'm pretty happy. That side mung on >GP's chainrings is pretty much visually equivilent to mine, and I've only >ridden twice since the last scrubbing. > >I'm trying to be regular about soap & brush scrubbing every 2-3 weeks, but >that could mean as many as 15-20 rides. Road riding alone won't really do >that, but if you ride or incorporate trails, it can look pretty brutal >fairly quickly. > >This was a 2 hour loop on the local trails (which aren't even quite that >dry/dusty yet.) > >http://tinyurl.com/drivegrime > >And as for the RBW photo you linked to, I _DIG_ that Hunqachromatic choice >on the new caps - wished I'd remembered to snap one up when over there... > >- J > >-- >Jim Edgar >cyclofi...@earthlink.net > >Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com >Current Classics - Cross Bikes >Singlespeed - Working Bikes > >Gallery updates now appear here - http://cyclofiend.blogspot.com > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW >Owners Bunch" group. >To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
