I have two RapidRise and 3 normal rise rear derailleurs. The rapidrise bikes have the rear friction shifter mounted on the bar-end, whereas the normal rise bikes have friction shifters mounted on the downtube. I have never made a "mistake". All five of my bikes have standard-gauge tubing and all "plane" more or less. I found that when I am climbing with hard efforts the flex in the frame pulls hard enough on the shifting cables that the shifters get tucked a little and sometimes end up slipping a gear. I tend to tighten the shifters when that happens. The advantage of rapid rise in this scenario (which happens every ride I do), is that the derailleur will slip toward the lower gear, which is OK on a climb.
I would use all rapidrise except I find that it's noticeably harder (though not hard) to shift friction on the downtube with rapidrise. On every shift I tend to overshift and then trim it back. Franklyn On Monday, July 24, 2017 at 6:05:53 PM UTC-7, GAJett wrote: > > I have a RapidRise on my AHH, with newish (2010) Shimano indexed/friction > barcons. Absolutely love them. On my '73 Raleigh Competition I currently > have shifters on the downtube, but will shortly return to '70's vintage > Shimano barcons (the ones with the inner spring mechanism). > > While I still make mistakes with the RapidRise, they are minor and don't > bother me (decades riding pre-RapidRise made some habits). But I really > don't expect moving back and forth to be much of a problem. (I make many > more mistakes with the twist-shifter on my Bike Friday.) > Cheers! > -- 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.
