Originally Posted by
veganbikes
Just fyi "dam" is a structure to hold back water, the barely naughty word you are referring to is "damn" as in the famous Adm. David Farragut line "Damn the torpedos, full speed ahead" said during the battle of Mobile. If Mad Dog wasn't a common enough phrase I might barely buy your idea there but since mad dog is not uncommon and 34 is just a number and 43 has no real significance generally I don't think your thing really holds much of a candle.
34 is the number i chose when Racing ATVs, Cross Country M/C, and Karts, unless we were assigned numbers for an event.
Walter Payton inspired me to choose that number.. He kept the Chicago Bears moving forward, no matter what.
the Maddog nickname was earned, and goes back to my days riding with The Kossacks (patched over by the Gypsy Jokers long ago).
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it was not nice at all, and violated the BF TOU multiple times.
it seems alex8627 has got his bike working.. that's a good thing... i hope he's found that mid ring adjustment is controlled by the initial cable setting, and nothing else... that's always a guess at best, eh? I find a bit of initial cable looseness when the shifter is in "1" is the typical outcome to get :"2" to work well with limited or no cage rub... like "1", FD position "3" is once again governed by it's limit screw.