what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

patented
proprietary
incompatibility

horseshit

the next-next greatest thing
since grip shift
eccentricity
concentricity
compatibility
here & now meets the 80s
neoretrofit rig de jerry du jour   
Shimano     Campy                          SRAM my ass
give me a 5mm Allen wrench
long enough and I shall move the world
through space
like a slant parallelogram
5 6 7 8 9 10 this one goes to eleven
shifting
is overrated
there’s only so much you can do
between two limit screws

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the hardest button to buttonwasser said...

give me your tired your poor your sorry weakass rear derailleur and I'll ride it across Iowa or across town untouched matched up with that clogged up springisprung rickety ratchet gripshiftshit. However, you can take your bottom pull top pull granny gear back door swing swang front derailleur and put it in that there five gallon bucket to be recycled. I'm talking to you, not you, YOU

Posted August 11, 2012 12:36 AM | Reply to this comment

126mm OLD replied to the hardest button to buttonwasser...

I was built in the Schwinn factory in Chicago out of steel to roll big 27in wheels with a 5speed freewheel in the rear, which is what I did for years and years then I retired and retreated and collected dust until I ended up at a community bike shop in Seattle and some guy bought me and asked the shop to build me up as a new bike and it was important to use his Cannondale 1 1/8 threadless stem & bars on my .833 steer tube and a 9 speed cassette and wheel and mismatched STI shifters and go fish on the cable routing hold the pickles hold the lettuce special orders don't upset us all we ask is that you let us build up bikes with parts manufactured within the same decade as all the other parts you've grown attached to. Maybe you need to buy another bike and another. One more contemporary and one a bit older...as in 120 or 126 OLD

Posted August 14, 2012 05:54 PM | Reply to this comment

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