Originally Posted by
Peter_B
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.
How true.
Suicide just seems a convenient, sensationalist, eye grabbing tag to add to something you may not like, or never grew up with.
I think Penny Farthings look dangerous, but they were the only thing available at a certain place in time.