I guess I should confess to being an 'imperfect' shifter. I've got silvers on the Saluki and bar end indexers on the custom and like em both. Never thought about high 90% shifting accuracy. Don't really notice probably cause I've got poor powers of shifter discrimination.
Or...I've just got wicked skillz from 20 + years of friction down tubers. -JimD Now I've got something to work on as I ride to work. On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:04 AM, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > One place where I'd be inclined to choose indexing is for off road > riding where rough terrain makes smooth friction shifting hard to do. > As it is, my terrain is mostly flat, so I don't bother, but for > terrain that called for a lot more shifting, I'd be inclined to choose > it. But only 7 speed cassettes. > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Thomas Lynn Skean > <thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: >> I should point out... this was my first decent-length ride with Silver >> shifters, not friction. I rode with friction shifting for most of a decade >> as a teenager. Rode a lot, actually, compared to normal kid riding. While >> shifting then was never a big problem, it was something that I always to be >> better. Basically, I danced with friction while wanting indexing. >> >> Obviously Silvers are better than those shifters from my youth. And it's >> possible I too could get better at friction shifting now. But in comparing >> them directly now, even with Silvers, I still find I like dancing with >> indexing. Its small downsides are outweighed by its continually repeating >> upsides. Friction has technical merit in a world where index-compatibility >> is non-trivial to acquire. And perhaps there are riding styles or needs that >> I don't have that friction serves better. But for me friction's upsides are >> basically aesthetic and as of now don't overwhelm indexing's overall appeal. >> I might get better at it and/or might increase my desire for the aesthetics. >> I'll get in a few hundred miles of practice in the next few weeks. >> >> Yours, >> Thomas Lynn Skean >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/i4p-mkYaSK0J. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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. >> >> > > > > -- > Patrick Moore > Albuquerque, NM > For professional resumes, contact > Patrick Moore, ACRW > http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > > -- > 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-bunch@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-bunch@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.
