I too have become a big rapid rise/bar end fan due to Grant's promotion of them. Love the idea of the switchable rear derailer. Good luck with that. That said, there is another diff, which is that the cable attachment bolt is on the back plate of the parallelogram instead of the front one. I assume Grant knows this, but just in case...
Istarted stocking up on them a while back as I don't really like the current X-shaped ones. And yes, they were designed to work with the mtn brifters where you shift by pushing down on the brake levers. One last thing: rapid rise detailers work really well with Campy Ergo brifters, which don't have the silly one gear at a time limitation (but you gotta use 10 sp campy with 8 speed shimano, or 10 sp with 9 sp and route the rear del cable the wrong way around the bolt. On Oct 3, 8:19 pm, newenglandbike <matthiasbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an RR derailleur on my bombadil, a high-normal derailleur on my > trek, and a suntour cyclone equipped centurion with the 'backward' > front derailleur. I switch between bikes all the time, and after > the first couple of shifts, you don't really have to think about it > anymore. > > I think the main benefit of RR derailleur that makes me want to stock > up on them as well is that, when using them with friction shifters, on > the rare occasion that you slip out of gear (which only ever happens > when you're going up hill for some reason) you end up in a lower > gear. This is WAY better than 'standard' rear d's where you end up > thrown into an even harder gear in the middle of a climb. > > On Oct 3, 7:00 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 23:56 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Mike <mjawn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Oct 2, 8:26 pm, Thomas Lynn Skean > > > <thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> > > > wrote: > > > > All I can say is I'm stocking up on RR rear derailers. > > > Nothing beats > > > > 'em with bar-end shifters. > > > > Vas ist "RR" derailleurs? If that means (somehow) "reverse pull" and > > > someone wants to trade an honest American-type normal pull for a > > > poncey (lovely word!) LX r pull one, let's tawk. > > > I think RR stands for "Rapid Rise," also known as "ass backwards," or > > "low normal": unhook the cable, and the derailleur auto-shifts to the > > lowest gear/largest sprocket. > > > I don't follow this sort of thing closely, but in a recent thread on > > 2011 XTR someone made the comment that "Rapid Rise is now dead". > > > > I don't like them atall. > > > I've been through this once before, with SunTour backwards-acting front > > derailleurs. Sooner or later, no matter how much you love the gear (and > > I loved the Compe V front derailleur, and hung onto them many years > > after they went out of production) you have to switch back, and the > > switch is painful. -- 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.
