His precise instructions to the cool production and editing touches, that Park Tools videos is very good all around!
On Thursday, 11 April 2019 08:11:43 UTC-7, Eric Myers wrote: > > I've mostly ridden older bikes which came to me in good shape so I just > rode them as they came, after I cleaned them, replaced rubber parts and > sometimes cables/housing, and gave them a tuneup. In all this time I only > had one bike with indexed shifting (and a derailleur). It worked OK, but > tended to skip the occasional gear when shifting. This didn't bother me > that much for the type of riding I was doing, but it irked me. > Occasionally I flipped it to friction, but the shifters weren't as nice in > friction mode as some of the others I was used to. I did put silver > shifters on one bike, and they were definitely nicer than any of the other > friction shifters I had. But basically I felt like there were issues with > both index and friction, and I couldn't completely discount my mechanical > skills as part of the problem. > > When I got my Sam Hillborne frame, I decided to try for the "have my cake > and eat it too" option of the Shimano bar end shifters with index and > friction modes. The first try went OK, but after several months it started > skipping some gears. I figured this was possibly due to cables stretching, > plus I was using 8 spd shifters on a 7 spd rear wheel. But again, it was > more mildly irksome than actual bothersome. More recently, I put on a new > derailleur and new wheels with a 9 spd cassette, and originally figured I > was just going to swap friction. But that irked part of me spoke up and > wanted to try again with the 9 spd indexed shifters. So, that's what I've > done, but this time with more research. Park Tools has a really good video > with Calvin Jones walking through how to adjust a rear derailleur, > covering limit screws and indexing: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZxPIZ1ngY Following this video I got > the new setup shifting much more smoothly than any of my past indexing. > We'll see how long it lasts, and how easy it is to re-adjust down the > line. For now I'm pretty happy with it. > > -- 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.
