re: #308 wrenchwench

I remember when Shimano first put 7 gears on their cassettes. I thought, ‘Why so many? There’s hardly any difference between them!’

I lost interest in bikes when I got a drivers license at 16, and only got interested again when I was 38. So I missed 6 and 7 speeds, and barely got in in time for 8. I still have, and still love riding, a 1994 Ritchey Road Logic with 7410 Dura Ace that I got for 1/3 off in 1996 when 9 speed Dura Ace came out. Sure, the STIs are funny-lookin’, but the spidery 7410 crank is a thing of beauty!