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Sram grip shiftters breakage
I went through several of the cheapest SRAM grip shifters.
Tom Sherman wrote: = Dave Larrington wrote: = Tom Sherman wrote: The rear Shimano bar-end shifter has the advantage of a friction mode= if the indexing goes off during a ride. In addition, the front bar-end will easily handle oversized chainrings and non-standard chainring spacing, while the front Rabidfire (sic) shifter will not do so well in these situations. What Tom said. Rabidfires are a Work of Stan and their use should be= strongly deprecated. Bar-end shifters are OK on the trike, with the = bars pointing more or less vertically, but I don't think they mate well wi= th other steering layouts... = Paul Components "Thumbies" [1] can be used to mount Shimano bar-end shifters on flat bars. = [1] http://www.paulcomp.com/thumbmtn.html. = -- Tom Sherman =96 Quad City Area |
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