YAYYY!!! That was a long road to this point, but all seems well now. I'm
looking forward to tomorrow when you'll be shifty! Wait, let me rephrase
that...
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Thank you, Dorothy. ❤️ That is great to know, and I do think I’ve now gotten
the issue fixed.
A List member messaged me and said, “Leah, I still don’t think those shifters
are right...” And he was right. The clamp needed to swap places with the brake
clamp. Then Joe B. realized the mechanic had
I found this on a bikeforums thread
6. The grips have to be pushed all the way onto the handlebar, you can’t let
them hang off the end. The leather end plug is sandwiched between the end of
the bar and a flange on the end cap. If you don’t have them pushed on all the
way, the leather plug will
I should call them up in my best grizzled cop voice: JOE BERNARD HERE, DON'T
SCREW IT UP. OK BYE.
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Waiting for promises of a better product, delivery and installation in the
future doesn't help in the present though. Tension in the bolt is an easy
check today, regardless of the shifter.
Even terrific Sun Tour Thumbshifters need a slight tension adjustment now
and then, as with any shifter t
Neither is satisfaction in waiting for promises of a better product,
delivery and installation in the future, when the tension is an easy check
today, regardless of the shifter.
On Friday, August 16, 2019 at 7:17:49 PM UTC-4, Joe Bernard wrote:
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> Ghost shifting with those clickety SunRace sh
Ghost shifting with those clickety SunRace shifters is a fault of using an IGH
shifter on a derailer. It can be fiddled with enough cure it to the
satisfaction of some, but it's simply not a friction shifter. Leah will be much
happier with the Microshift, I promise.
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Ghost shifting may also be as simple as a slight tightening of the tension
bolt on top of the shifter in question. D-rings to adjust are sweet,
hex/allen bolts are not !
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With ghost shifting in the back I’d be checking the derailleur hanger alignment.
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Party on, Garth 👊
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Oh boy . at this point amidst the comedy of trials and errors, who or
what done what to/fro who or what . it's enough to speed up the Earth
from rotating for just one moment while It rolls in Laughter ! So may as
well break out song . it's just like riding a bike . Liberty
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Unless you're doing it yourself - I'll tell you how! - then it's off to REI for
you. The new shifters will be less finicky for them, plus I/we can talk you
through any further adjustments that may be needed.
Just make sure they know you're doing reverse-sides with both in friction.
They'll be
I feel I must take the shifters to the REI mechanics now. That was the deal -
they wouldn’t charge me for last visit but told me to come back for shifter
service instead. Don’t I kind of have to see them? They do understand about
friction, they just didn’t get the set up on my Aquaclem the first
1. You have given me hope that all will be well with new shifters!
2. Where is that darn speed racer? Must have decided he couldn’t handle the
hill. And certainly not in this heat.
3. Front derailleur seems to be behaving this week. I don’t know that it had
ever been used much. When I got it, I w
My opinion of REI's bike mechanic fell precipitously a few years ago when
the *head mechanic* told me that the rubbing pads of the Shimano disk
brakes on a bike newly bought for a friend were behaving normally and would
stop rubbing after they "wore in." Idiot. Fixed them myself.
I do like REI's m
Leah,
I don't want to disparage any bike mechanic but I wonder if REI has
mechanics with much experience. I along with others would recommend new
shifters as you have decided and take it to an LBS mechanic. Good luck!
Doug
On Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 11:29:25 AM UTC-4, Bicycle Belle Ding Din
Leah, my guess is you got used to the way the front shifts compared to the
quite different arrangement on Betz. I know from experience that those Silver
cranks move the granny tighter to the frame than Sugino, so the shift over to
it is going to be lazier. It's also going to be weak if you shift
You’re making sense to me with your fancy mechanic words, Garth! 😂 I see that
too, now that you say it. I ordered the new shifters and will have the
mechanics look at the chain when I take the bike for shifter install.
The story gets stranger. I’ve ridden the bike to school the last 2 days, so
I noted in the photos of your bike the chain appears in the smallest rear
cogs and small ring and the chain doesn't have much tension. It could
possibly have a few too many links, and/or RD isn't up to the task. This is
all greek to you of course. It reminds me of how 2 people can speak the
sa
I still have the 1st Gen Sunrace shifters on my Clem and 2nd those that noted
the ghost shifting in the rear my solution being the same as already
mentioned... over/under shifting slightly and backing off to find the sweet
spot. Definitely found a few in between gears with the mid range cli
Now if you can find a way for your entire life to revolve around you riding
your bike in a silly workstand you'll be all set Ahahaahahaa
A reasonably good mechanic with any pride and curiosity at this point would
go with you outside while you watch them ride it in the lot. I'm surpr
Well, that was an exercise in patience and fruitlessness.
The gracious pair of REI mechanics took me right in. They probably rolled their
eyes when they saw me for the 2nd time in 3 days, but it couldn’t be helped. I
told them the situation, reiterated some of what you guys told me, and one
mec
Front derailleur adjustment is not rocket science, and unless there is some
fundamental incompatibility between derailleur and crankset,* or between
derailleur and bottom bracket assembly spindle length*, or between
derailleur and shifter*, fixing a shifting problem is simply a matter of
proper adj
Will it shift when not on a hill? It may be that the limit screw for the
lower gear needs a slight tweak or that the cable needs to be given just a
bit more slack so that the derailleur can move a little more toward the
smaller gear.
On Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 1:31:36 AM UTC-4, Bicycle Bel
I contend that it's madness. Those maddening maddeners only came on the first
run, then Riv switched to 9-speed with Microshifts swapped so the rear has a
soft ratchet and the front is pure friction. MUCH better.
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On Monday, August 12, 2019 at 11:40:44 PM UTC-7, Joe Bernard wrote:
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> The finicky stuff was the rear cuz those clicks did in fact act kinda
> indexy and would sometimes leave you stuck slightly between gears. Which
> won't make a lick of sense to you if you've always used friction, so we can
>
A bike mechanic who's used to all the shifty bits indexing properly might miss
this btw. That double fd isn't designed to work with a triple, especially one
with the low profile design Grant put into the Silver. It can be made to work,
but it takes a bit of fiddling.
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It may be that the front derailleur is binding and needs some lubrication at
all the pivot points. With the shifter in position for the small ring, if you
push the derailleur cage in with your finger (not while riding, of course) does
the cage move inward some more? Or, look to see if there is
Yep Garth, I think you're onto something there about derailer. Now that I've
wandered over to Leah's Instagram to get a look at her bike, I'm realizing she
has those Riv Silver cranks that mount the granny way tight to the frame. I'll
betcha that fd as set perfectly parallel to the rings is bott
That sounds like a FD alignment issue Leah. Regardless of the shifters in
question, I assume you mean the Sunrace "One at a time" ones, moving the
chain from ring to ring should work easily as long as the FD is set up
correctly and cable tension alright. If the FD is too high above the
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