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Profile Design "swift shift" and shift adapter
I posted this in r.b.misc and never got a response, so I'm trying in
..tech: Has anybody tried the Profile Design "Swift Shift" and/or their shift adapter product with their aerobars? If so, how well does it work? Does the adapter work reasonably well (it's intended to allow you to use both a downtube shifter on the aerobar and your integrated shifter on the regular bars)? Also, how much does the adapter cost? My LBS doesn't carry them and I can't find it online either. I did find the Swift Shift for $40. -- Dave Kerber Fight spam: remove the ns_ from the return address before replying! REAL programmers write self-modifying code. |
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Profile Design "swift shift" and shift adapter
David Kerber wrote:
I posted this in r.b.misc and never got a response, so I'm trying in .tech: Has anybody tried the Profile Design "Swift Shift" and/or their shift adapter product with their aerobars? If so, how well does it work? Does the adapter work reasonably well (it's intended to allow you to use both a downtube shifter on the aerobar and your integrated shifter on the regular bars)? Also, how much does the adapter cost? My LBS doesn't carry them and I can't find it online either. I did find the Swift Shift for $40. I've installed a lot of them. They are quite simple and accept any Campagnolo-standard square boss shifter with 5mm screw( even Shimano changed to that fromat from their whacky teardrop boss and 4.5mm screw). SwiftShift takes anything from a classic friction lever set to Campagnolo BarCon controls. It can _replace_ your Ergo/Sti levers but cannot ( I was going to say "obviously" but maybe it isn't) be used in conjunction _with_ another shifter. It takes ten or twenty minutes to pull the cables from your shifters and install the other system. Should be $40 at any place which services triathlon bikes. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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says... Has anybody tried the Profile Design "Swift Shift" and/or their shift adapter product with their aerobars? If so, how well does it work? Does the adapter work reasonably well (it's intended to allow you to use both a downtube shifter on the aerobar and your integrated shifter on the regular bars)? Also, how much does the adapter cost? My LBS doesn't carry them and I can't find it online either. I did find the Swift Shift for $40. It's regularly priced at $40 at shops (like us) who do triathlon setups. Been around a while, it's neither rare nor exotic. A phone call away for any LBS who cares enough to close a $40 sale instead of whining. Swift Shift is simply a downtube lever mount which fits at the end of a Profile aerobar. Any standard square-mount DT shifter fits fine with no tools or special knowledge required. I'm not sure if you implied this or if I inferred it, but you cannot pass the cable through another lever as with those new top levers for brakes. If you want to use both shifters alternately, you're in for a cable change each time. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:24:28 -0500, David Kerber
wrote: I was wondering if anybody had tried it and if it worked. Looking at a picture I found on the internet of it with the top removed, it looks like you set one of the shifters to its most relaxed position when you want to use the other one, and both cables connect to a block which then pulls on the cable which goes to the ders. Yeah, that should work. You'd need the block to move along a set of rails to keep it straight rather thasn pulling to one side or the other depending on which shifter is being used, I'd imagine. A set of rails suitable for this could probably be easily salvaged from an old cdrom drive. Jasper |
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