Super helpful! Glad to know the Silver2 barends can work as-is with 11 speed, that's news to me. As far as pairing the microshift shifters to shimano bar ends, they fit just fine, I think the major difference I can find is that the little flat square "peg" that the shifter fits on are angled differently between the microshift and shimano pod. I'll experiment later in the week and let you know what I find.
How's 11 speed friction for you? A lot of people seem to think it's a trim nightmare but I haven't had the pleasure of debunking that first-hand. Andrew On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 1:30 PM Matthew Mosen <mgmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm running a slightly different setup but I figured this might be useful > info. I have a silver2 shifter in a riv thumb shifter mount on my 1x11 > Susie. Shifts through the range easily. I would switch that 9 speed shimano > shifter in your photo into friction mode and test if it'll shift through > that 11 speed cassette. My guess is that it will. If you want 11 speed > indexing, that's a different story. > > Specifically regarding microshift shifters, some (maybe all?) of there > shifters are physically bigger than the 9 speed shimano shifter in your > photo. So some material would need to be removed from the bar end pod to > simply fit the shifter in there. But this has to do with the physical > dimensions of the shifter, not the shift range. > > I guess I need some clarification with one thing related to this topic. Is > there a difference in overall cassette width when comparing, say, a 9 speed > cassette and an 11 speed cassette? Seems to me that any cassette designed > for an HG freehub body would be constrained to the same outer width > (distance from smallest cog to biggest). As my understanding goes, the jump > from 9 speed to 10 or 11 is achieved with a narrower chain and reduced > spacing between adjacent cogs. > > Hope this was helpful in some way. > > Matt > > On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 9:38:03 AM UTC-8 Andrew Turner wrote: > >> I've heard of people altering their bar end pods for wider range and I >> was curious how one goes about doing that. I've got some microshift 11 >> speed bar ends but I want to lose the black pods in exchange for shimano's >> silver ones. >> >> Looks like Roman accomplished it on his Hillborne: "Mark scalloped out a >> Shimano barpod to fit a 10-speed MTN Microshift thumbie and it all works >> perfectly." >> >> My gut tells me I need to take a file to the top portion of the pod so >> the lever can get a further rotation...something like this:? >> [image: Screenshot 2020-11-07 at 11.30.29 AM.png] >> >> Or maybe I'm lost. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd >> appreciate it! I'd also be curious to know if anyone has done this with >> their silver2 bar ends and if they'd pull an 11 speed cassette with this >> modification. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrew >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/x6f_PPDBJRI/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/52fcb31a-3791-4fcf-8a6a-bab106ac535fn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/52fcb31a-3791-4fcf-8a6a-bab106ac535fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAGnPyMFc6WUkqyBGd_KrO7rjPm0EvwSK0N9p6kfWfnDsVTEFCg%40mail.gmail.com.
