FWIW, I replaced the VO 2-leg stand (which IME worked better than the twice-as-expensive Pletscher -- the legs spread wider) with a cheap Greenfield rear dropout mount stand after my grocery bike kept falling over with any large rear load. It looked uglier but it worked much better, even, oddly enough, with one or the other pannier much overloaded. An incidental benefit was that I could leave the stand down when wheeling the bike through the grocery store and park it whenever I needed to investigate an item more closely instead of having to find something to lean the bike against and likely as not knocking askew some display.
The VO stand went on my daughter's bike, so she has the only pink, 24" wheel Electra Townie 3i in the world with a VO 2-leg stand. I rather miss the reverse action LX rd that came with my erstwhile Sam Hill and later migrated to the Fargo. I've not used any modern (ie, post 8 speed; and most far earlier) rd except that one, but that one was the smoothest and most precise shifting rd I've ever used. I swapped it out for an 8 sp XT because I could not stand the reverse action, but the XT is far less precise, especially pulling the chain over the bastardized cogsets I build out of odds and sods. However, the Silver shifters do help mitigate the finickiness. On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > A year or more ago, my rambunctious golden retrievers knocked over the > Atlantis, which was politely drying in the afternoon sun after a nice > bath. The derailer hanger bent, and it totaled my original derailer, > which was the now-discontinued rapid rise version. I admonished the > dogs, and substituted with shimano's current high normal equivalent, > consoling myself with the thought that I'd adjust to pulling my silver > shifters up to go to a lower gear, just as I had quickly gotten used > to pushing down for same when that reverse action came around. > > I never did. Maybe the little fellow needed some fine tuning, but my > real objection was, I suspect, somewhat more conceptual: lifting that > shifter up to ascend to a higher gear had come to make more sense > somehow. (That, and I still have one of the rapid rise fellows on the > bleriot, so I wasn't able to completely block out the past > experience.) > > So, through the magik of the intertubes, I procured and mounted the > rapid rise model back on the Atlantis. The difference is remarkable > for me, and I am most happy with my reversion to the reverse-action. I > suppose I should get some more before the ether swallows all > examples. > > That having been said, I have a question on another, tangentially- > related subject: when at rest, Atlantis sits on a two-legged > kickstand, and with a decent load pops a static wheelie. On a sloping > surface, those handlebars swing round with a vengeance, and if the > rear load's uneven, the resulting weight shift threatens to topple > all. > > So -- what do you call/where can I get one of those rotation-limiting > devices that prevent the full swing-around on the bars? I've seen > them in photos posted by a couple of you touring types, I believe. > And maybe I should lop several centimeters off the kickstand legs to > decrease the wheelie effect? > > Rick. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
