This guy could give lessons on that line of speak.

That was rather impressive discombobulation on how the turbo encabulator manages to do what it does so well... getting this down to layman's terms can be quite challenging.

I find myself wondering whether the turbo encabulator is available in carbon?

yeah. or do-hicky down there.

When I am going up a hill and the cable has stretched and I cannot get the lowest gear--I call it something else.

Gotta love winter threads!!

I just ride.

Shifty bits.

My problem is not the pronouncement, de-rail-ee-yer, kinda, but I forget the spelling. So, as an aide-memoire, it consists of three parts:

1) De. Easy to remember that bit. Means "off" in French.

2) Rail. Kind of like a train on the rails, the chain is on the sprockets, like rails. Anyway, easy to remember that bit too. So De (off) Rail (gear, sprocket, sort of) means to move off the sprocket/gear.

3) Leur. Which is what the French do when they look at American lovleys, they might say "Zut allors, zeez ******** fille sont tres jollie, tres chic" and then they "leur" at them. Sort of squint the eyes and peer intently at the victim making "haw haw ho" noises deep in the throat. As it were.

So de-rail-leur.

Bingo.