This is a good point. I only recently picked up my first singlespeed (that's built and actually being ridden), a Dahon folder, and I'm a little shocked how not-a big-deal it is to be in one gear over varied elevations. It's already transformed the way I ride my derailer bikes, which I had clearly been over-shifting.
On Friday, March 29, 2013 9:57:17 AM UTC-7, Bryan wrote: > Hi, Erl > > It sounds to me that the grip shifters have formed a bit of a bad habit. I > had a commuting friend a while back who also had grip shifters on his bike, > and the guy was in a new gear like every two seconds, and this was on a > flat commute. He'd quickly shift through all his gears between stop lights > - up and down, up and down. You can get by with far fewer gears. Even one > gear. I have a slightly hilly 7-mile commute, and on those days when I ride > a geared bike (I mostly commute on a Quickbeam), I switch gears maybe two > or three times during the entire commute, and this is in busy LA traffic > with tons of stop signs, red lights, mammoth potholes, speed bumps and > idiot texting drivers. Grant talks about over-shifting in Just Ride, I > think. You can get a lot more out of each gear than you think. > > I would suggest switching to the bar-end shifters, or even a single speed > bike, just to train you off the over-shifting thing. > > Bryan > > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
