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Control + Shift

July 11th, 2005 by Guitar Ted
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In the evolution of ride-over-anything mountain bikes, the ever-vulnerable rear derailleur—that gangly parallelogram that shifts the chain up and down the rear cogs when it’s not clogged with mud or bent by rocks—has been a glaring technical handicap.

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One Response to “Control + Shift”

  1. 1 Anonymous 

    I guess if you’re riding a 45-lb. $5000 bike you won’t notice the loss of efficiency over a derailleur. Sarcastic comments aside, this look like a good application of internally geared hubs.

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