If you need more cable pull it has already been innovated: https://velo-orange.com/collections/shifters/products/dia-compe-ene-11s-dt-shifters
I figure that a bigger barrel will just make the shifter even more sensitive to small movement, though. I've had good luck with Silver V1s and Simplex retrofrictions shifting 10 speed, so I'll stick with those. If we ever run out of both of those, then I'll buy these: https://velo-orange.com/collections/shifters/products/dia-compe-ene-w-dt-shifters In other words, there are lots of good friction downtube options and fewer friction thumb options. I may like downtube better personally, but it makes sense to me that Riv is making the harder to get thing rather than the easier to get thing. Got to check out the prototype Silver V2 when I dropped by the other day. It's looking good! Reed On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:01 PM, LBleriot <gary.sch...@att.net> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
