Originally Posted by donnamb
63 different women in the last 10 months that I have been bike commuting have told me this. Those are just the ones I've encountered in my everyday life and the subject of me riding my bike to work happened to come up. It's not just the adjusting, it's the actual shifting. I just don't think numbers like that - especially when I never sought the information from any of them - are an overstatement.
That's fine but don’t you think this is more because they don’t want, don’t like, or don’t need a derailer compared to they can’t understand? Derailers are not technology monsters and my point was that people who
want one, like the OP, should not be put off by them because of this misperception.