1. I've tried the Sunrace and Paul thumbies and am currently running Silver shifters on Paul thumbies. I like them both but prefer the Silver/Paul combo. They are very long compared to the Sunrace shifters but they work very well. Nice and smooth with a great look with the CNC'ed aluminum.
2. Once I got used to thumbies, instead of bar ends, I liked them. Very easy to use once you get them in the position you like. That took a little experimentation. I'll go back to Albastache with bar ends when the shoulder heals. I really miss that set up. 3. I use only a thumb when shifting them down but use my index finger and thumb when shifting up and trimming. 4. Haven't tried them on a straight bar. I use them now because I shifted from Albastache to Albatross due to a shoulder injury. I found bar ends were too long on the Albatross bars and I'd occassionally shift with my knees when turning. I used the Sunrace thumbies with Boscos and they worked well. The "not indexing click" was a little weird at first but then you just forget about it. 5. I moved mine right over from the bar end pods without a hitch. Don't forget that you will need to get the adapter for the Silver shifters (https://www.rivbike.com/products/paul-thumbie-silver-shifer-adapter-hardware-pair-17145). I forgot about that and it stalled my build for days. Torture! I feel your marital pain. I've been trying to convince my wife how much she'd love the Riv mountain mixte but she will not give up her bright orange Public with twist shifters. I also think she saw right through my thinly veiled attempt to add a Mountain Mixte to the household for my personal use. I'm sure she could hear my future argument for a 650b Hunq... "But the mountain mixte is *your* bike dear!" John On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 6:30:36 AM UTC-7, lum gim fong wrote: > > 1.What kind do you like? > > 2.Are they easy to use? I am used to whole fist shifting with bar ends, > but wonder how easy it is to accurately flip the lever into the next cog > with thumbies. > > 3.Can you really just use your thumb, or do you wind up trimming alot > with thumb and index/middle grip? > > 4. Do they work well on mountain/comfort bike straight bar setups? > > 5. Can I use my Silver shifter levers mounted to a Paul type stop, or are > those dog hind leg shaped shimano levers better for thumb shifting? > > Thanks for the info. > My wife's bike has index twist shifters which have never performed that > well and was thinking of redo-ing her cockpit with ergo grips, Shimano MTN > type levers and thumb shifters. > I'd really like to get her a Rivendell mixte, but she likes her Raleigh. > Good thing is the thumbie setup would be totally transferable to an RBW > bike later. > -- 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.
