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Friction versus Indexed

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  • Started 12 years ago by Wilmington's Cow
  • Latest reply from ruggtomcat

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  1. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Just connected up the thumbie for the rear derailleur and oh my word how smooth is that shifting??? Seriously, no bother at all on the ten speed (I'd read people saying, ooh you have to be really precise, but so so so so easy).

    Only issue is I took the front derailleur off, just figuring to run the middle ring (5 hole rings compared to 3 on the single chainring I bought) and the natural chainline is sitting on the small ring. Feels great though. Connect up the brakes at the weekend (out all tomorrow), hopefully the wee front rack will arrive, get a new rear 'guard, and the Kaff is back in business....

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. kaputnik
    Moderator

    hopefully the wee front rack will arrive

    Decaleur, or porteur?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    I think technically 'porteur', but it's wee, Nitto M12 (mounts onto the canti studs). Thinking perfect for camera when small lens is on (I'm building a boxy gadgety thing for the rear rack to carry the camera when the humungowildlifelens is on.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. allebong
    Member

    The lowest end shifters and mechs feel great when they're brand new with lovely pristine cables. Once you get a bit of wear on them and especially when they end up encrusted in filth that's when the problems start and the better stuff tends to take the lead.

    My last memory of rear friction shifting involved me thinking confidently that I'd mastered it 'oh this is so easy' and then putting down some heavy power. Only to find that I had just slightly misaligned the mech enough for the chain to skip off - you can guess what happened next. This was with the massive tolerances of 5 speed as well, if you can cope with 10 you're doing better than me.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    Ancient Suntour shifter, new cable, 5 year old encrusted mech ;)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Coxy
    Member

    Cool. Planning to try this soon

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. Dave
    Member

    On my last recumbent I had friction shift on a nine speed cassette. It was great, no issues changing (or mischanging) at all, and that's the bike I qualified for PBP on.

    I remember friction shift being really fussy from when I was a kid, so can only assume it's got better with the modern cassettes, not worse (or is it observer bias?)

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. kaputnik
    Moderator

    I suppose the hyperglide* ring profile does a lot of the work now

    * other tradenames are available

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. ruggtomcat
    Member

    I would like a friction for the front ring, needs more trimming than the back, however I *love* my STI's and to a lesser extent twistshifts (not so cool in the rain) because you dont have to put your hand down to change!

    Posted 12 years ago #

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