Tense...peed?

"Scott Munro" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I seem to have a dim racial memory of an ancient time when bicycles with ten speeds were
manufactured using stone knives and bearskins....

Seriously, though, are there any companies still making ten-speed bikes for the mass market?

Nope, no more ten speeds. Well, I HAVE seen some extraordinarily cheap bikes made in India and
imported here to Canada that had 5 or 6 speed freewheels about 5 years ago, but that's about it.
They have 10 speed cassettes now however...

Cheers,

Scott..

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Scott Munro said:

I seem to have a dim racial memory of an ancient time when bicycles with ten speeds were
manufactured using stone knives and bearskins....

Seriously, though, are there any companies still making ten-speed bikes for the mass market?

(For those on r.b.m who have no idea what I'm talking about, there was a *Simpsons* episode
tonight that featured supposedly really cool bikes with drop bars and all, referred to as "ten
speeds." I'm figuring that no one on the show has bought a bike in the last quarter-century or so,
but I suppose someone could still be making a ten-speed bike with drop bars for kids.)

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Some very cheap "hi-ten" road bikes with no-name indexed DT shifters have started showing up
locally. Looks like 6 or 7 speeds out back, though I haven't counted, and available in small sizes.

Nobody on this continent who isn't a roadie or married to a roadie calls road bikes anything but "ten-
speeds." OTOH, did you check out the bizarre location of the shifter on the bully's bike as he
changes to "first gear" and the peloton drops Bart?

And while we're at it, Bart's road bike clearly had compact geometry,
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Scott Munro said:

I seem to have a dim racial memory of an ancient time when bicycles with ten speeds were
manufactured using stone knives and bearskins....

Seriously, though, are there any companies still making ten-speed bikes for the mass market?

All it takes is a Campy rear derailleur and a track crank...

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Scott Munro said:

I seem to have a dim racial memory of an ancient time when bicycles with ten speeds were
manufactured using stone knives and bearskins....

Seriously, though, are there any companies still making ten-speed bikes for the mass market?

All it takes is a Campy rear derailleur and a track crank...

You'll never get the gear range you have with a 2-ring front by 5- speed rear, though. My 25-year-
old Schwinn LeTour that I keep on the trainer has a 52-39 front and a 28-14 rear.

....

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Scott Munro <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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I seem to have a dim racial memory of an ancient time when bicycles with ten speeds were
manufactured using stone knives and bearskins....

Seriously, though, are there any companies still making ten-speed bikes for the mass market?

(For those on r.b.m who have no idea what I'm talking about, there was a *Simpsons* episode
tonight that featured supposedly really cool bikes with drop bars and all, referred to as "ten
speeds." I'm figuring that no one on the show has bought a bike in the last quarter-century or so,
but I suppose someone could still be making a ten-speed bike with drop bars for kids.)

I thought they were prepetually living in 1989...so 10 speeds might have been the rage back then.

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Yes, sometimes I pee when I get tense too.

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You'll never get the gear range you have with a 2-ring front by 5- speed rear, though. My 25-year-
old Schwinn LeTour that I keep on the trainer has a 52-39 front and a 28-14 rear.
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Dave Kerber

1984 Schwinn Voyageur. It really doesn't belong in the garage!

Pat in TX

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You'll never get the gear range you have with a 2-ring front by 5- speed rear, though. My 25-year-
old Schwinn LeTour that I keep on the trainer has a 52-39 front and a 28-14 rear.
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Dave Kerber

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1984 Schwinn Voyageur. It really doesn't belong in the garage!

Yup! Too nice to leave parked in the garage, but not nice enough to ride when I have another one
that's only 4 months old!

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I thought they were prepetually living in 1989...so 10 speeds might have been the rage back then.

Yes, but BattleBots wasn't.

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I thought they were prepetually living in 1989...so 10 speeds might have been the rage
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Yes, but BattleBots wasn't.

Yes, but?...Well, what year are they in?

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have been the rage back then.

Yes, but BattleBots wasn't.

Yes, but?...Well, what year are they in?

It's Homer time.

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I seem to have a dim racial memory of an ancient time when bicycles with ten speeds were
manufactured using stone knives and bearskins....

Seriously, though, are there any companies still making ten-speed bikes for the mass market?

(For those on r.b.m who have no idea what I'm talking about, there was a *Simpsons* episode
tonight that featured supposedly really cool bikes with drop bars and all, referred to as "ten
speeds." I'm figuring that no one on the show has bought a bike in the last quarter-century or so,
but I suppose someone could still be making a ten-speed bike with drop bars for kids.)

I assume that you mean that today people only ride racing bikes that have more than ten speeds, or
mountain bikes.

Companies like Peugeot and Motobecane, which each took their place at the top of the bicycle
manufacturing heap, have fallen by the wayside. Peugeot makes @#$%%& cars, too, BTW.

I have a Raleigh Super Record (a touring bike, not a racing bike) that is old as the hills. And it
has 10 speeds. And it is the best $175 I ever spent in my entire life. And I have the leg muscles to
prove it. I have to replace the tires every two or three years, but I have never replaced the
brakes. My dad has an ancient 10 speed Schwinn. He still rides it. He is 80 years old.

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