Re: [CR] Dura-Ace Timeline / Primative "front indexing"

(Example: Framebuilders:Alex Singer)

From: "dddd" <dddd@pacbell.net>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR] Dura-Ace Timeline / Primative "front indexing"
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:05:32 -0700
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Urrghhh! An ErgSTI lever! Have you no shame!

Funny coincidence, the 710 in question has those aero post-mount shifters, for which one of Suntour's cast housing stops are proverbial hens teeth. Just a couple of hours ago however:

http://tinyurl.com/fqpsv

http://ebay.com/<blah>

How good is that?

NOT that I'm gonna fit ErgSTI's on that bike, but I have wanted one of these on several occasions.

David "You won the item--pay now" Snyder Auburn, CA usa


----- Original Message -----
From: Sheldon Brown
Subject: Re: [CR] Dura-Ace Timeline / Primative "front indexing"



> Quoth David Snyder
>
>>I've often wished that my triple-ringed Trek 710 had an "indexed" travel
>>stop on it's front Aero shift lever to keep from over-downshifting to the
>>middle ring during competitive riding amidst sharp rolling hills. I have
>>repeatedly pondered such a device while riding, possibly consisting of a
>>tiny frame-mounted, spring-loaded lever leaning against the front of the
>>shift lever, and that could be flipped away from the lever when a shift to
>>the smal ring was actually needed, which is almost never in that bike's
>>routine. Couldn't you imagine a Rene Herse with something like that, an
>>elegantly skulpted and chromed spring-loaded dog-leg doo-dad?
>
> Been done. See: http://sheldonbrown.com/gloss_e-f.html#erickson
>
> Sheldon "About To Sell That Bike" Brown