On 06/05/2016 05:42 PM, Leah Peterson wrote:
Steve, whoah. Here’s what Leah knows how to do: Use Allen key to adjust Brooks.
Use different Allen key to adjust handlebars. Use air compressor to fill bike
tires. Squirt T9 (or whatever it’s called) to lube chain. Ha!!!
And obviously you know how to friction shift. Which raises the
question, does he? I presumed your comment about shifting on his bike
meant you tried it and it misbehaved for you. If instead it meant you
could hear ghost shifting when he was doing it, it could just be user
error on his part.
On Jun 5, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote:
On 06/05/2016 05:25 PM, Leah Peterson wrote:
Those oddball thumbies the Clem came with stock.
On Jun 5, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote:
What shifters do you have?
On 06/05/2016 05:20 PM, LeahFoy wrote:
3. His gears ghost shift. And there's lots of chatter in his gears. Is it
possible the REI mechanic didn't install the gearing correctly? Do they need
adjustment after a while?
And so non-indexed, and presumably we can rule out user-related issues.
Do they both have the same number of sprockets? Have there been any special
mods to your setup that might make shifting better? (The trick of swapping
upper and lower pulleys comes to mind as one possibility.) Have you ruled out
slippage of his Silvers caused by assembly issues regarding the washers? If
you swap wheels with him (assuming you can - I don't know if both models take
the same wheel size) does the ghost shifting follow the wheel to the other bike?
Regarding adjustment: the usual "cable stretch / housing bedding" issues
shouldn't matter here, as it would appear that both bikes are using friction shifting, in
which case the only possible stretch issue would be not quite enough tension to fully
center the shift on the largest sprocket (or, if you've got arsey-versey derailleurs, I
guess it would be onto the smallest sprocket).
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