It's a semantic thing. 7-speed close ratio means you're fast. 7-gear wide ratio means touring. Image is everything, ask Style Man. Look fast, feel fast, be fast. Look touring, feel touring, be touring. Not personal, better or worse, just different. All equal in cycling's big picture. Ted Ernst Palos Verdes Estates. CA
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [CR]7 speed freewheel
> Brian Booth wrote:
>>Does anybody know where I can buy a 7 speed close ratio threaded freewheel
>>(not a cassette) 13 to 19 or 13 to 21. The only ones I can find in Toronto
>>are 14 to 28, all the bike shops tell me that nobody makes them anymore.
>>I'd
>>look like a tourist on a 14 to 28.
>
> Why wouldn't you want to look like a tourist? Touring cyclists are nearly
> the pinnacle of the cycling pyramid, just below commuters and way above
> mere racers! ;-)
>
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