[RBW] Re: Getting used to "Silver" barend shifters

2011-08-03 Thread Rex Kerr
Thanks to everybody who gave input... I finally got around to doing something about the poor shifting. After a particularly frustrating commute this morning I pulled it apart during a break at work and: * removed one chain link + set of side plates to increase chain tension * retracted the b-lim

Re: [RBW] Re: Getting used to "Silver" barend shifters

2011-07-29 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:42 -0700, charlie wrote: > I never thought of getting non floating pully wheels and > wonder where I can buy decent quality ones. You have a perfectly fine non-floating pulley in the lower position. You could try swapping it with the floating upper, a simple no-cost soluti

Re: [RBW] Re: Getting used to "Silver" barend shifters

2011-07-29 Thread Rex Kerr
The pulleys that I bought before were made by a company called "Bullseye". I think that they've since become yet another page in the history books. I'm not sure where you'd buy them now. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:42 AM, charlie wrote: > I have an old Suntour derailleur and a Campagnolo deraill

[RBW] Re: Getting used to "Silver" barend shifters

2011-07-29 Thread charlie
I have an old Suntour derailleur and a Campagnolo derailleur that work really nice with no under or over shifts but I am now getting "ghost" shifts on my newer Deore derailleur. actually it is a few thousand miles old but I never thought of getting non floating pully wheels and wonder where I c

[RBW] Re: Getting used to "Silver" barend shifters

2011-07-28 Thread Michael Hechmer
I hate it when these things happen to me! I have two pairs of silver DT shifters and two pairs of BE shifters. Both pairs of DT shifters worked flawlessly from the get go; both pairs of BE shifters required quite a bit of fussing to get them to work well. I do use 9 spd cassettes and now ge

[RBW] Re: Getting used to "Silver" barend shifters

2011-07-28 Thread Brett Lindenbach
check that your silver bars end shifter levers are tight. this helped me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/YCDUHrjsxmcJ. To post to