Grip shifters are the crack of the bike world. Or the Krispy Kremes, not sure which. (They ARE different, right?)
From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com [mailto:rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of PATRICK MOORE Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 1:35 PM To: rbw-owners-bunch Subject: Re: [RBW] Re: Shimano bar-end shifters & Albatross bars for commuting Amen to this. I had a hardish day yesterday (hardly epic; I'm just weak) and, at the end of the day faced an 8.3 mile return commute involving a modest headwind and 5+ miles of climbing, of which 1 was steep, the rest rolling -- all in a 72" fixed gear on a bike weighing 28 lb with load. No spring chicken, but, by pacing myself, I made it home without undue travail. Moral: you don't need too many damned gears! On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Bryan <bwedg...@hotmail.com<mailto:bwedg...@hotmail.com>> 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. 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