on 12/1/08 12:30 PM, George Schick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ".... Hyperglide, on the other hand, gives little if any feedback when > you > aren't centered, and ghost shifts are common, especially after you > downshift for a stop and then load the drivetrain when you start up > again ...." > > Yes, this happens to me all the time and it makes me nuts. Having > carefully adjusted the derailler for proper alignment, lubricated the > cable guides under the BB shell to excess, it still happens and I > blame it, for the most part, on frame flex (this is a Rambouillet). I > suspect, but don't know for a fact, that it occurs less on very stiff > racing frames with shorter stays. Nevertheless, there's no going back > now since, as you say, nine-speed cassettes are very tricky to > friction shift. Besides, I like some of the inherent advantages of > indexed shifting that you point out. But I still grind molars every > time that big grinding "clunk" happens whenever I load it up.
If you are running friction shifting, you might try the pulley swap to move the floating pulley to the lower position. -- Jim Edgar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2009 Current Classics Calendar - Now Available to Order! http://www.cyclofiend.com/calendar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
