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Old August 6th 04, 03:29 AM
Mike Schwab
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Default Sram grip shiftters breakage

I went through several of the cheapest SRAM grip shifters.

Tom Sherman wrote:
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Dave Larrington wrote:
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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...

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Paul Components "Thumbies" [1] can be used to mount Shimano bar-end
shifters on flat bars.
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[1] http://www.paulcomp.com/thumbmtn.html.
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Tom Sherman =96 Quad City Area

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