For the record: Others will have their own opinions, but I shift a home brew 9 speed cassette -non-aligned ramps- with Silver bar end shifters and I don't have a problem. Perhaps I am more deft than others, or perhaps I have lower standards.
Patrick Moore iPhone > On Mar 10, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Chris Lampe 2 <clampe9...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Jim, > > Is this specific to Silver shifters or is it something that is relatively > common with a mix of friction and 9-speed cassettes? My bike has a 9-speed > cassette and those cheap thumb shifters that RBW sells and sometimes I get > frequent ghost shifts, even under a very easy pedaling load. > > >> On Sunday, April 1, 2012 3:03:20 PM UTC-5, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery >> wrote: >> I'd tend to look at the silver shifters as the culprit, especially if you're >> running a 9sp cassette. There's enough "slop" between clicks in the ratchet >> system in those shifters that even if the shifter is tight enough, >> derailleur/chain placement will be imprecise in some gears. In that case, a >> tiny amount of frame-flex-induced cable pull may tip it into an adjacent >> gear. This would be less likely with 7/8sp cassettes. > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
