I was excited to see this thread because I was planning to do this to my wife's Betty. So I pulled the trigger (ha) and bought a set of Albatross bars from Riv and Shimano SL-T670 shifters from Nashbar. Went to set it up this morning.
The bike has 105 derailers and a 10-speed cassette. The shifters are 3x10. But the rear shifter/derailer/cassette are not playing well. It seems like the derailer is traveling too far for each click of the shifter. The derailer traverses the entire 10-speed cassette in just 6 clicks of the 10-speed shifter. Everything I read on the interwebs says that this combo ought to work. 10-speed + 10-speed + Shimano derailer = happiness. But either the shifter is pulling too much cable or the derailer is pivoting wrong. I can't tell which. The setup I replaced used Dura-Ace indexed levers. 10-speeds, no problem. The cable is anchored to the derailer the same way, not cockeyed which might change the ratio, according to Sheldon. I have not taken this to the LBS, because I think they would immediately say "won't work, buy this". I want to check with some people experienced with doing this mix-and-match setup. Any ideas, please? What did I miss? (I have not tried the front yet, but I know that it may not work either because the road/MTB front derailers do have different ratios. I am ready to swap in a Deore just in case.) Thanks Ed K Rockville MD On Friday, July 17, 2015 at 11:00:23 PM UTC-4, Steve Cole wrote: > > I know Riv doesn't generally condone/approve of the use of trigger > shifters -- they don't sell them. I'm wondering whether any list members > have used them and, if so, whether you might recommend them when compared > to bar ends with Albatross bars. > > Thanks for your reply. > > Steve Cole > Arlington, VA > -- 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.
