I don't have any for sale but I can confirm they are worth the $$. Beautiful component with a satisfying click in index mode and if your bike has a light-ish downtube you can even hear the 'ping' resonate the frame a little bit. At least that's what I think I'm hearing on my waterford homer I have a set on.
I too wish i had the matching long cage derailleur. On Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 10:11:24 AM UTC-5 James Valiensi wrote: > Hi, > I bought a NOS set from Alex Cycles in Japan a couple years ago. Paid $90. > The set they replaced was installed in 2002 and were a bit loose. So, they > last about 20-years. > I wish I had the matching derailleur. > > On Apr 11, 2024, at 7:50 AM, John Dewey <john...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Who among us has used Dura-Ace 9-speed dt levers long enough to ‘wear them > out’? > > And if so, how long? > > Jock > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 2:28 PM Ted Durant <tedd...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 2:48:19 PM UTC-5 Bill Lindsay wrote: > > Also, you can get brand new 9sp bar cons from Rivendell at $140, and > elsewhere for a few dollars less. Some people run bar cons on their down > tube shifter bosses, and they work long fine. > > >> FYI, Grant tells me that he thinks Shimano has stopped making the 9sp >> bar-end shifters "after 25 or 26 years of making them". Get 'em while you >> can, and expect the price to get eye-watering. >> >> And, yes, you can run them on the down tube. Interesting bit of RBW >> history ... I pointed this out to Grant a long time ago, and that the >> opposite was true, that downtube shifters could be mounted on Shimano >> bar-end pods. And thus were born the Silver 1 bar-end shifters. >> >> Ted Durant >> Milwaukee WI USA >> >> -- >> 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/362ccd4b-9ae5-4dde-8d36-4d6c0ae545d4n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/362ccd4b-9ae5-4dde-8d36-4d6c0ae545d4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > -- > 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/CA%2BkTrE543TXfqGO-bpOW8g2Ca-ga8Zh53S80M%3D2uqGfEBXGWzA%40mail.gmail.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CA%2BkTrE543TXfqGO-bpOW8g2Ca-ga8Zh53S80M%3D2uqGfEBXGWzA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- 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/94faa3a5-f371-494f-a707-51c1aaf33525n%40googlegroups.com.
