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Old 10-27-21, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by spelger
i'm no mechanical engineer and RD may not be crude in comparison but it still is shoving the chain. it shoves from the inside rather than the outside. i'll grant you that it is more graceful about it but i suspect that is more due to the difference between neighboring cog sizes.
It's nearly always possible to verbally simplify two things being compared so that they appear to be more similar than they, in fact, are.
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