On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 17:45 -0700, 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 my experience, that's more likely to damage a handlebar than to damage Shimano bar end shifters. It can, however, break one of the Silver/Sun Tour Sprint shifters; happened to me. > 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. " Grant's idea of "good enough" isn't mine, I'm afraid. -- 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.
