We can cancel this request, thanks... I think I may have it resolved. After consulting Sheldon Brown (God bless this man's legacy!), he gave me (yet another) great shifter tip. (The first shifter tip I got from him a few years ago was to run a low-normal derailleur with bar-end shifters so that the shifters move in the same direction (down for downshifts, up for upshifts), which as it turns out I much prefer.
His latest tip: Suntour index shifters pull less cable than the Shimano, so using a Suntour shifter on a Shimano 6-speed freewheel would cause an undershift... However, the same 6-speed shifter on a Shimano 7-speed freewheel pulls close to the right amount of cable (according to Sheldon), and there is actually room for a 7th shift on the 6-speed Suntour shifters, using the limiter screw to "unlimit" the derailleur movement. SO... as I install my blingy Riv bullmoose bars on my Bombadil this week (just waiting for some final cable-swap hardware), I'll shortly be installing (6-speed) Suntour XC LS 7000 thumb shifters to (hopefully) work well with my 7-speed Shimano-compatible freewheel. Fingers crossed, in Sheldon we trust. If all else fails, these shifters have a friction option. BB On Sep 15, 8:19 pm, Montclair BobbyB <montclairbob...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... for my Bombadil... I already have beautiful M700 friction > shifters, but would like to have the option of indexing. I'd prefer > to use older Shimano mountain shifters than Paul thumbies. > > Looking to buy (or possibly swap a set of vintage Suntour XC friction > thumb shifters). > > Thanks, > BB -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
