"I'm not familiar with the SA 8-speed. Is the shifter indexed or just the hub?"
The SA 8-speed hub isn't indexed, but it definitely wants to be centered into each gear without much feedback. Supposedly Sheldon Brown could do it, but like 99% of the things Sheldon could do, it was beyond my skills. I miss Sheldon. Part of the allure of the thumbshifter (which would be about equal with a barend shifter) was that I used the wheel/cable/shifter setup as a self-contained module that I could have on or off of my single speed bike in a couple of minutes with nothing but 2 or 3 zipties for the cable and tightening the shifter clamp on the bar. Except for the constant "is it in or out of gear" fiddliness and ker-chunking out of gear under load it was great. I'd like a clamp-on downtube shifter best of all for this concept. On Jun 20, 2:53 pm, Kenneth Stagg <kenneth.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Roger <rogerdhod...@gmail.com> wrote: > > " It would be very cool if they also made a real shifter for the > > Rohloff. I'm not in the market for a new bike but I'd be very, very > > happy to get a bar end shifter that was setup to handle the extra > > throw required by the Rohloff! I'd ditch that damned twist shifter in > > a split second." > > > I feel the same way about the SA 8-speed I have and its twist shifter. > > I'm not familiar with the SA 8-speed. Is the shifter indexed or just > the hub? The silly thing about not offering a bar-end or similar for > the Rohloff is that the shifter has no indexing - it's all handled at > the hub - so the only issues are the dual cable setup (easy enough) > and pulling enough cable (more work but doable.) > > -Ken -- 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.
