I actually had the same problem with the IRD - the spring inside it seemed to be immensely powerful, requiring me to tighten my shifter to keep from autoshifting and requiring a lot of force to shift to a bigger chainring. I switched back to the shimano altus from 1981 that my bike originally had and it works much better for me. Maybe I'm doing something wrong- I'm something of a bike noob.
On the thumb debate: I think the confusion stems from the use of the word "downshift" - what Ginz meant (I think) is that he had to push down on the shifter a lot in order to shift to a bigger chainring. --Alex On May 9, 10:18 am, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 06:30 -0700, Ginz wrote: > > Steve, > > > Sorry, I wasn't clear. I hurt my thumb shifting to the big > > chainring. I had a habit of grabbing the bar end shifter and prying > > with my thumb like a can opener. > > I still don't see how that's possible. The shifter is usually slightly > below horizontal in the middle ring and when you pull up on it with your > fingers it goes to horizontal to slightly angled up. Don't see how the > thumb comes into it at all. -- 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-bunch@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.
