On Tue Apr 1 15:59:11 2025 cyclintom wrote:
On Mon Mar 31 18:58:12 2025 Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 3/31/2025 3:56 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:42:52 -0400, Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On 3/31/2025 11:04 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
Does anyone else have this much trouble getting a front deraileur to >>> work?
Yes, Tom Kunich.
People who do things are more likey to run into problems.
If they're competent, they run into few problems; and they tend to solve them.
It's not 100% , of course. I had a B&M LED dynamo headlight begin
randomly blinking out on a night ride two days ago. It was infrequent
and very intermittent - half a second here, a full second there - but disconcerting. The bike's on the workstand now, displaying the
intermittent problem.
I'm suspecting is a problem with the on/off switch, since among other things, I can't switch the headlight off! Of course it's a sealed unit,
so opening it will require some commitment. I'm checking into warranty first.
Only Frank can comapire a front derailleur with a dynamo.
I don't mind topic drift. But Frank was avoiding the comments that he made. Remember that Franik has a 6 speed freewheel vuje with a chain that wears forever and a front derailleur that can be set up by a 12 year old. If he starts commenting about the
incompetence of someone else he should have the knowledge of the problem himself. Instead he changes the subject to dynamos.
I try to ignore Frank doing this but it is pretty difficult when he doesn't know the first thing about a problem and tells us that asking questions about it proves incompetence.
The 11 speed Ultegra has an adjustment that when you are setting it up you loosen it so that the cable lock will rotate out to where you can fit the cable into the lock. In this position the front derailleur will not shift into the large ring. If you
tighten this 2 mm allen. It will then shift properly. do you suppose that Frank knows all about that or would he call anyone wanting to know why the Ultgra front derailleur doesn't shift into the big ring with a tight cable incompetent? What's more there
is a dust cover over the lock screw that you have to know how to install properly.
So the whole point is not about topic drift, but Frank calling people asking questions, incompetent when he hasn't the vaguest clue about the subject.
I show this about him all of the time. He claims to been a professor of Mechanical Engineering. Would you want to speen thousands of dollars to have Frank teaching your child? Most of the really good engineers and physicistr I worked with ALWAYS were
quite careful about what they said because they welll knew that they couold be wrong on any subject. I have permanently damaged lungs because TWO physicists with Doctorates couldn't work out a formula in 3 dimensions instead of two. And they didn't have
the sense of leave any safety margin for pumping out the poison gas chamber. These guys weren't stupid, they made a REALLY obvious mistake that would have been plain to them if they actually thought about what they were telling me. But they had
PhD's and I had a high school diploma. So they were right and I had to be doing something wrong. Well, I was the one who saved their asses. This happened time after time after time up to the point that working for a consulting agency, My two bosses
ALWAYS deferred to me. Frank defers only to Liebemann. The man who never worked a real job.
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