Very nice. It makes me wonder, have riders ever put shifters on the steering tube? So a little higher than the down tube, but not as high as mounted on the stem. Us long tall folks might find that a more convenient placement. I will check if this kit would work for that.
- Andrew, Berkeley On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 11:00:55 AM UTC-8, Lungimsam wrote: > > It is a VIA DT shifter clamp with Silver DT shifters pictured. > Got the shifters from Rivendell. > Got it from an online British bike shop. Comes with a shim for slimmer > downtubed bikes. Total with shipping I think was 26$US or something like > that iirc. http://www.bricklanebikes.co.uk/via-downtube-shifter-mount > > Note that Riv stop tab washer and also shimano bar end spacer do not > work great on the bosses and the bosses are too long/high/tall for the Riv > stop tab DT washers. I tried with 2 tab washers - bosses still too tall, 3 > - too much washer, shifters won't stay on. Not enough purchase for the > d-ring threads. > > I might try running it with just the internal washer just butted up > against bosses as you can see in the close up pic. Everything seems to move > nicely. Looks pretty. > > Anyway, if it works this would be a cool boss clamp to use with Silvers, > for those with a bike that doesn't have dt boss braze ons. I'll update. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
