| Re: gear cables and sub-zero temps
cc wrote:
> MattB wrote:
> > Scott Gordo wrote:
> >> Skeleton Man wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I live in Canada and still like to enjoy my MTB in the winter.. but
> >>> when it
> >>> gets below freezing the gear cables must contract or something
> >>> because the
> >>> rear derailler goes out of alignment.. usually resulting in difficult
> >>> shifting to lower gears (1, and 2 mainly).. but when it warms up a
> >>> little
> >>> everything is fine..
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything I can do to prevent this ?
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Chris
> >>
> >>
> >> Wow. If the cable contraction due to cold is enough to pull your rear
> >> der out of wack, that's some serious shrinkage!
> >>
> >> I've had shifting suffer in the cold, but always chalked it up to the
> >> shifter mechanisms and or the mung inside the cables stiffening up.
> >>
> >> /s
> >>
> >
> > Ha! My family have been using the term mung for generic goo or
> > contamination for forever. I figured it was an Aussie term (anyone know?).
> >
> > Long live mung! (the word anyway)
> >
> > Matt (single speed in the cold, or ski)
>
> I only know it as a bean, but
> wiki's got some great stuff,
> including the military def of
> a "combination of axle grease,
> mud, and dead things that were
> crushed under the equipment".
> Yum.
>
> cc
Zappa also uses it as a term in his autobiography: "low-end mung". I
always figured it was some type of voluminous bass distortion.
/s
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