I have completely disassembled and reassembled more than a couple times, both intentionally and un. I have run my set on both the downtube and bar-ends on more than one bike, and my wife has a set on the bar-ends of her Hillborne. We have broken so many plastic washers trying to keep them from slipping that I have multiple back-up bags.
On checking the Riv product page now it looks like the complete shifters come with a "new and improved" plastic washer that isn't available separately. Can anyone speak to an improved user experience? I have the older L/R version rather than the newer X/O version also. I do think these shift fantastically and are in every way superior to the Sunrace shifters I used previously, it's only the slippage that grinds my gears. On Friday, March 29, 2024 at 11:09:11 PM UTC-4 Pam Bikes wrote: > I'm not sure if I have the v1 or v2 but probably the v1 and earlier but > I've never had slippage. You do have to line up the square piece when > installing them and get the plastic washer lined up too but after that it's > tight enough to hold. The exploded view that Eric Marth will help show you > the critical points of contact to line up. I do know the plastic washers > break after a while but that's usually when the bike falls and the shifter > takes most of the force of the fall. > > On Friday, March 29, 2024 at 6:56:26 PM UTC-4 ian m wrote: > >> I love the look of the Silver1 shifters. IMO they are the platonic ideal >> whether on downtube or bar-end. Yet I find in my experience the performance >> refuses to meet the aesthetic quality. Try as I may I can't get the shifter >> to stay put. Loctite or beeswax, slippage, then over-tightening. There's >> still no better option than the plastic washer? Hoped the brass bit over >> the plastic would protect it, no such luck they always crack. I'm tired of >> trying to make these work. >> >> Do the newer Silver2 shifters improve in performance where they've... >> let's just say changed in aesthetics? It reads as though they have the same >> internals which I would assume is the issue. While they do have a look that >> maybe only a mother could love I'm willing to give them a shot if it's a >> noticeable difference. >> >> I am index curious but not sure I'd want to pay the Dura-Ace bar-end >> price rather than making the all-out switch to brifters. Any thoughts or >> advice welcome. >> > -- 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/1e4a44a2-76ec-417a-9ae8-74027df3fb44n%40googlegroups.com.
