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Old 01-23-09 | 11:44 PM
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There's nothing "suicide" about a lever front derailleur. You take your hand off the handlebars to shift it?? ... so that's suicidal? Then downtube shifters are "suicide downtube shifters", and water bottles are "suicide water bottles". Only Americans, and only newbies, call a lever front derailleur a suicide front derailleur. They weren't called that in the US back in the day, and they aren't called that anywhere else to this day.
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