On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 10:24 -0700, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > The ratcheting system basically allows you to keep the shift lever > nice and tight without making the lever hard to move; this by allowing > the friction to retard only in the direction of the derailleurs' > spring pull. This means that you can make a Silver nice and tight -- > tight enough to prevent any ghost shifting from lever slippage while > keeping the levers' movement light enough for ease of use. With your > basic non-ratcheting shift lever, like the old Record type, you can > tighten them down plenty tight to prevent slippage and thus ghost > shifting, but the lever will be hard to move.
It should be noted, however, that most of the time when "ghost shifting" is discussed here, we are NOT talking about lever slippage, but rather the difficulty of friction shifting a Hyperglide drivetrain that does not provide much in the way of audible feedback to let you know you're properly centered, and is by design especially eager to shift. The usual "ghost shifting" scenario involves downshifting in anticipation of stopping at a stop sign or traffic light (and you think you've made a perfect shift), then starting back up and having the drive train auto-upshift with a huge crash as soon as you put pressure on the pedals. -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
