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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: RE: Re: Fine Tuning Shifting
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 11:10:18 -0500
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On 8/15/2024 10:49 AM, cyclintom wrote:
> On Wed Aug 14 19:29:27 2024 zen cycle  wrote:
>>> On 8/14/2024 3:35 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am willing to believe that Flunky raced friction shifters but that
>>>> his memory of that is so poor that he doesn't even remember how he did
>>>> it.
>>
>> Yes tom, I remember quite distinctly how I did it.
>>
>>>> On the beginning of a YouTube video (about a race Lemond won)
>>>> there was a HEADER showing a freewheel frcition setup going through
>>>> the gears and there was perfectly distinct pauses between gears as the
>>>> power was shut down.
>>
>> No, there isn't. If you have a link to this video that shows someone
>> stopping pedaling to shift, post it. You don't stop pedaling to shift,
>> ever, you fucking idiot.
>>
>>>> What was also distinct about that video was that
>>>> racers did NOT follow as closely as they do now because of that large
>>>> variation in power causing accelerations to be rather spotty.
>>
>> You're the same guy who said down tube shifters are in the way of your
>> knees, and also said one must look down to shift down tube shifters. I
>> think it's pretty clear who is the one here that has no fucking clue
>> what he's talking about.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Greg LeMond was filmed looking down to shift friction shifters but you're so much better than him you don't need to. I wonder who it is that doesn't have a clue?

Even I ( never had a racing license) don't look at my gear 
levers.
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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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