I've indexed 8-speed bar-ends with 7-speed cassttes easy peasy, but agree with Shoji that Silver Power Ratchets are the bee's knees for rifling up and down a 7-speed. You never quite know which cog you're going to stop at, but you almost always land right square on a good one. Try it for a while, then go back to indexing. You'll be surprised how clunky and archaic it will feel. In my opinion, of course...
On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 6:20:14 PM UTC-7, Shoji Takahashi wrote: > Hey Erl, > If you're comfortable with friction (from your downtube shifting days), > then you may want to go with friction for bar ends. You won't have to worry > about setting up indexing, which could mean a little more tweaking to make > it index properly. Also, you won't have to worry about getting compatible > parts for indexing. You may even like it better than click-click-clicking. > > Good luck, sho > > On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 8:45:54 PM UTC-4, WETH wrote: >> >> Ryan and Steve, thank you for your responses. >> Steve, the bike takes a tumble on a monthly basis (I am a teacher and >> park my bike in the classroom; at home the dogs and children manage to >> knock it over regularly). In regard to index shifting on a 6 and 7, here >> is the product write up from the rivendell site:"Shimano's best bar-end >> shifters,the Dura-Ace's are indexable only with 9-speed cassettes; the >> Ultegras index good enough with 6, 7, or 8 speed cassettes and both work >> with a friction mode, too----so if the "good enough" isn't good enough, >> throw it into friction, cowboy, and ride away. " >> I will definitely have to make sure they are compatable with my 7 speed >> cassette. Thanks again for taking the time to respond. >> Safe cycling, >> Erl > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
