I want to chime in here, because I don't own anything older than 1973....
In my humble, comparatively uneducated (bicycle wise), and generally moot opinion, my vote for discussions on this ring would include anything that is "friction" shifting. I would say that bicycles lost their "classic" appeal when they brought the downtube shifters up, and, arguably, when Shimano introduced index shifting (incidentally, right when I started bicycle racing).
There you go. Now I am going to duck and get out of the way....
Stephan Andranian Costa Mesa, CA...where it is actually raining. Don't we have laws against this sort of weather out here???
PS: Isn't this the fifth or hundredth time this has been talked about???
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