Nikko – I'm having the same problem with a set of Silvers I installed today. Anything improve your shifting?
On Tuesday, October 6, 2020 at 8:32:24 PM UTC-4 Nikko in Oakland wrote: > Hey Sam, > > I just got some brand new Silver Shifters (v1) today that I put on with > some VO thumbies. I'm having a similar-ish problem and wondering if you're > experiencing the same, but more along the lines of the problem J L > mentioned (spring return) . > > My problem is that the shifting for the front shifter is suuuuuuper hard > to do. Is this similar to your problem? I push the shifter pretty hard and > I feel like I'm definitely forcing it. I finally get it to shift, but then > I do that a couple more times, and at this point the cable is looser than > it was before, getting pulled out of the tensioning screw. Do you think the > problem is similar, or is this really just a difference in the spring > return of the front derailleur? > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:31 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Note that the levers would loosen and slip even when the plastic tension >> washers were whole. Blue Loctite solved the slipping problem but not the >> washer breakage (or shifter body breakage) problem. >> >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 5:30 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I applied blue Loctite to the tension bolts, and this worked. But the >>> need to do this, and my experience of breaking 2 right-side Silver shifter >>> bodies when my bikes fell over, took me back to the old Suntour Bar Cons -- >>> where I have to use blue Loctite anyway to ensure that the shiny and very >>> hard to find locknuts don't fall off. >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:44 AM Sam Perez <sam.per...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> hi guys, how do you keep your silver shifters form slipping under load, >>>> i tighten the retention bolt but when i play with it it slowly loosens >>>> with >>>> multiple shifts, i do lots of hills and need confidence that i wont ghost >>>> shift under load. >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAJN34zkhXhsXVh9YiLKsT-Sbg4MBmqcEHh1%3DLTXqNZK_KcQWvw%40mail.gmail.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAJN34zkhXhsXVh9YiLKsT-Sbg4MBmqcEHh1%3DLTXqNZK_KcQWvw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguLD9ck-ktPgZ1DYnF7etVBxL9UVyA8dyFMCMLFYFv3tw%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguLD9ck-ktPgZ1DYnF7etVBxL9UVyA8dyFMCMLFYFv3tw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > Onward, > Nikko Mendoza > nikkog...@gmail.com > 757-618-1124 > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7fa8a156-9459-46b0-aa6e-deebf7465cc7n%40googlegroups.com.
