Installed Silver (v1) shifters on Shimano pods last night/this morning. I had a problem very similar to what Nikko described above. The lever for the rear derailleur worked like a dream. But the one operating the front mech was difficult to use.
Surly LHT, Albatross bars, Shimano pods. Front derailleur is a Shimano Tiagra FD-4503. After some trial and error I have them working nicely. The Shimano levers I removed worked just fine. I installed the new Silvers using instructions for SuperMix Shifters from a 1999 Riv catalog: Snipped and modified the shifter boss stop, mounted lever and washers, applied beeswax to the wing nut. Installed cables as normal. The lever for the rear worked just fine. The lever for the front was *very *difficult to operate. At first I thought I couldn't move it at all. I took the troubled lever off. With a closer look I noticed the shifter boss wasn't sitting perfectly flat. The channel I cut there needed to be a bit wider to clear the nub in the shifter pod. So I filed that down some more. And I had incorrectly run the cable at the pinch bolt. I had been going under the tab, I needed to go over top the tab (consulted installation manual and some forums). This changed the leverage a bit to my advantage. While doing this I also replaced the cable and housing. I didn't see anything troublesome in the cables and housing so far as crimps, dimples or kinks. I applied some additional beeswax to the threads of the wing nut. Reassembled. Now the shifter is working as expected. On Friday, October 9, 2020 at 8:41:51 PM UTC-4 JohnS wrote: > I second the N+1 for the cassette cog count to the chain. I have a Shimano > 9 speed cassette and a 10 speed SRAM chain ( PC-1031), work very well > together with my Suntour down tube shifters. RD shifter stays put, but the > FD shifter comes loose with frequent shifting. I just keep tightening the D > ring, may switch to the Silver DT shifters. We'll see. > > JohnS > > On Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 12:49:23 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> BTW, the finicky chain tracking is not necessarily related to slipping >> shifters; I've had it happen with shifters that never slipped. But for >> slipping, to repeat it again, loudly: blue Loctite fixed my Silvers as it >> did the old Campy Record DT shifters that are notorious for loosening, and >> that I used on the ineffably nice Kelly Take-Off mounts. >> >> >> 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-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ec5190a7-2986-452a-b4cc-636cfaed12f9n%40googlegroups.com.
