First off...for Alan....If you've been keeping up with the weather here on the West Coast, we are now into a heat wave, of sorts (like someone turned on the Summer switch back on June 21st). Been upper 80s/low 90s for the last few days here in the Bay Area and will continue on thru Mon/Tues of the coming week (Strong heat advisories). When you can comfortably wear shorts (not talking about a style issue in San Francisco, we know we're in for some sort of hot cycle (I live ~40 miles south of SF and we're usually 10-15 degrees warmer). Our good news is that this causes a marine layer (low overcast) to be sucked into the Bay Area and that usually cools us down til the next cycle. No complaints...I could be living in the midwest/on the east coast

OK, back to busy-ness...thought I'd circle back around on this RD thing. I've been riding and adjusting and riding for the last 2-3 weeks and, while it's gotten better, I didn't hit "near-nirvana" until my ride this most-recent Friday. I'll be doing a longer ride Sunday AM, so it will be a good test. I think I'm there, but I may need to do one more slight twist of the screw to be sure.

I certainly have learned something about my bike. However, I also think I've learned a bit more about myself. I realize I am overly cautious/conservative when it comes to fixing my bike (also that way financially I was so very much concerned about under-adjusting the top gear stop screw so the chain didn't walk off the cog that I believe my initial (re)adjustment (after adding the threadlock) put me on the wrong side of the "sweet zone" for setting it up.

I plan to be less "engineer" (which I am) and more intuitive and touchy feely from this point on when it comes to making adjustments (Big Grin!!)

Cheers....Steph