OK, that's a little hyperbolic, but I'm pretty excited. I like downtube shifters, and Silver downtube shifters are great. I use Silvers and I use the Suntour Sprints that Silvers copied. They are *almost* perfect. One thing I like a teeny bit better is that the very last Shimano downtube shifters had a neat little feature. The left side shifter would not lay flat, parallel with the downtube. It had a built-in internal stop that made it stop a bit early. That way, when you reach through to grab that left shifter with your right hand, it was sitting up high and was easier to grab. I always thought that was pretty slick.
The piece that causes Silvers, and Suntour, and Campy, and Gipiemme shifters to stop parallel to the downtube was the same little piece. It's a flat piece of aluminum with a square hole in it, and a bent tooth in just the right place. I went ahead and worked out a design for a different base plate piece that has the tooth repositioned to give my Silver shifters that Shimano feature of grab-ability. I had my brother-in-law work up a solid model and I ordered a prototype from a machine shop. I test installed it tonight, and it works just like I planned it. Photos prove I can overthink almost anything: Silver 2.0 <https://www.flickr.com/photos/45758191@N04/sets/72157649775913121/> Now I'm looking into more cost effective manufacturing methods to see if it's feasible to make a run of these for other downtube zealots to geek out on. -- 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.
