>From: Sheldon Brown
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>| If you only know Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition |
>| from the Ravel or Stokowski "colorized" versions, (with |
>| orchestra) seek out the original piano solo version. |
>| I think it is much superior!
Oh, yes, it's delightful! The orchestra is never as flexible as the soloist. I
love the nuances of the piano versions I have heard. The orchestra tends to
plod and shout.
Also, look for various artist's interpretations of The Gates of Kiev, and the
other pictures referred to. I believe all were painted after Mussorgsky did his
writing, inspired by his music.
I prefer steel on steel, well lubricated with light oil, to the modern plastic
linings. I think SIS is designed to shift with SIS cable of specific length at
shifter and derailer. But that's an indexing system, and so it is best not to
tinker with it.
When I worked at the Washington post nights slipping the ad packets into the
paper, we'd lose conveyor belting nightly. Sproing! It would fatigue and break.
They threw a lot out and I'd use it as cable sheathing. It was unlined inside
and out but then I never rode in the wet then.
I have a boot on my V-brakes on the cable run from the noodle to the clamp. A
similar boot would allow the weight savings of an unsheathed cable run with the
cleanliness of the fully sheathed run.
To braze a cable end for later ease of maintenance, use a vertical butane
flame, not a lighter, but a small butane torch. Heat the cable end and form a
ball of borax flux on the end. Heat that red holding it from above but not
directly vertical, while preheating the 1/16 inch or thinner bronze rod, and
apply the rod to the red hot cable. Just a touch is all you need. The bronze
should run down to the cable end.
You'll find you can clip and file the end, and have a really nicely trimmed
cable, but this is only if you really like removing the cable, cleaning it,
inspecting it, oiling it, and replacing it. With liners and clamp on cable
tips, you never have to pull the cable through the sheathing.
Yours,
Doug Goncz (
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