As for durability of the shifters, if they are as good as the original they should be great. I still use the original ST thumbies that came with my '83 Stumpjumper on one bike and another pair on the Bombadil, they both work as great as great can be. I agree with Grant that you gotta wonder why any other kind of shifter was ever made, other than to be "other than".
Sure, you can take them apart but there is nothing to do in there anyways. So I don't see how not being user dismantled is an issue. I hope the new ones still have the on-the-fly-no-screwdriver-needed adjustment screw on top though. The band on the original was one "weak" spot though, as with age and many times being adjusted and all, I have had 2 clamps break(the ends). Fortunately, I found some replacements on ebay .... yeh, you didn't know they existed until there they are, staring you in the face, Sweeeet . I look forward to the Riv ones because well, I can never have enough bikes to put them on :) FWIW, I have shifted the same way since I first had a bike the could be shifted manually, it was a Fuji-something 10 speed that I bought from a doctor in the late 70's. Later on, I worked in a bike shop assembling and repairing bikes when the whole indexed thing was becoming big. As I test rode the new bikes, I thought "indexed shifting, hmmm, okay, but I already know how to shift". So that was the end of that ..... hey, the feel, sound and motion of shifting is as beautiful as any other art . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
