This hasn't been my experience at all, shifting 9 sp (and not even stock, so ramps all messed up) with PowerRatchet bar end shifters. It shifted fine, and I have a very sensitive ear for improperly placed chains; and I did use all the gears, as this was a wide range double setup. And the Silvers are far better than the PRs.
I think, from having worked with both silvers and Prs, that the ratchets work only in one direction and that the lever rotates independently of them in the other, so that the detents are also rotated in this second direction in indefinitely variable friction only mode. FWIW, 11-23 and 12-27 cassettes (stock) shifted perfectly with Mavic branded retrofriction downtubers, but these don't have detents, they have some sort of dual-direction friction system that mimics the ST system. And they also pull less cable, from what I remember. Whatever the case, their precision with 10 cogs surprised me. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <thill....@gmail.com> wrote: "With 9sp and 10sp, the ratchet clicks start to almost mimic indexing, and there are usually a couple cogs that are hard to use (or at least noisy). Some people have told me that they use 9sp with Silver shifters with no problems. I believe that these people are: a) lucky, b) simply not hearing the rattling noises, or more likely, not actually using all nine cogs (to reduce noise, always trim-shifting away from the cogs that don't happen to align with the ratchet)." -- 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.
