I said it before and I'll say it again. As DT shifters, these look as bad as the old Silver shifters used as thumbies. Yuck. Why not do something innovative and make the barrel on the right shifter larger to pull more cable/shift more than 8 speeds easily?
On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 9:12:54 PM UTC-5, dougP wrote: > > Interesting piece on the blug about the Silver Shifter 2 project coming > back to life. Prototypes in house at RBWHQ, with photos. > > "It’ll work fine on the downtube and better (than ever, than original > SILVER shifters) as a thumby or a bar-end shifter, because of the new > shape, heavily influenced by the 1983 SunTour XC thumb shifter. Slight > differences." > > IIRC, Grant had posted something a while back about this project fizzing > out for unstated reasons, so it's good to see it coming back to life. I > was pretty interested so looking forward to seeing the production version. > These look to have much more character than the stand-by Shimano bar end on > Paul thumbie mount. > > dougP > -- 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.
