I had one of those RDs on a commuter, it died way early of unsafe sloppiness, its parallelogram pivots wearing and the cage taking on an inward tilt under chain tension, close to shifting the chain over the biggest cog. I also had to replace the jockey wheels which were the only time I ever had to do that for outright function failure. I wondered if that odd rate and type of wear was due to the contrary springing. I never had a road RD reach uselessness that way and only a MTB one that was very heavily used in muddy conditions that I learned to avoid as a result and never jockey wheels.
I replaced the Rapid Rise with a regular one since I couldn't put my hands on one the afternoon I had to do the repair. Muscle memory (re)formed upon installation and use of the new "regular" RD. I use Suntour bar end shifters in friction mode with a Shimano cassette on my Ram and had to get used to their designed progression for unevenly spaced Suntour cogs on the evenly speed Shimano cassettes. That took about ten minutes. My friction shifting, front or rear, is quieter when riding in groups than all the brakey-shifty folks. I get the impression that many of them have conditioned to and are prompted to shift on the audible of others' clacking their gears as they approach terrain changes. Not from me and my muscle memory friction shifting. Like learning to left foot brake my old SAAB to get the thing to track around corners instead of plowing on a slacker radius path of its own. Amazing how dumb your body parts are when forced to do something new. Try writing with your "other" hand. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 9:39:45 AM UTC-4, d2mini wrote: > > I just finished up my new Sam build and bought a new RD for it without > even thinking about it. Now shifting it with my bar-ends feels all wrong > since it's opposite of what I was used to. > Previously with my shimano XT, I would pull up on the lever as I gained > speed on the flats, and if I came to a hill it was an easy push down to > drop into easier gears. > Now its the opposite and just feels WRONG! lol > > They don't specify, but the deore model on the Riv site is Top-Normal if > I'm not mistaken. > Google isn't turning up much but a bunch of threads from like 5 years ago > about people already having trouble finding Low-Normal or Rapid Rise RD's. > I did find a NOS one on ebay. > > So is it just me? Anyone else with this issue? Do I just need to get over > it? lol > Or if anyone can point me towards a model that's still available, I'd > appreciate it. > > -- 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.
