On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Earl Grey <earlg...@gmail.com> wrote: >.... My other bike on the other hand, with Shimano 9 sp > bar end shifters and 9 speed cassette on friction setting shifts only > passably. Sometimes the chain will jump back and forth between > adjacent cogs. Both bikes have high end rapid rise derailers, good > cables, newish housing and chains. Haven't done any elimination tests > yet, but I am pretty sure the culprit is insufficiently fine > adjustability of the friction mode on the Shimano shifters.
FWIW, I very handily shifted a home-brew (= non-serial-ramps) 9 sp cassette with SunTour Power Ratchet bar end shifters, and various 10 sp cassettes with Simplex retrofriction dtubers. FWIW. -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com -- 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.