Try rubbing some beeswax on the rubbing surfaces after cleaning with denatured alcohol. Beeswax is unique in that it acts as a sort of locktite and lubricant at the same time.
Rene [email protected] EarthLink Revolves Around You. > [Original Message] > From: MichaelH <[email protected]> > To: RBW Owners Bunch <[email protected]> > Date: 4/5/2009 5:44:47 AM > Subject: [RBW] Re: Silver shifter questions > > > Don't you just hate it when your bike ghost shifts. > > I have silver dt shifters on my rambouillet and it never ghost shifts > and never needs adjustment. I have silver bar ends on my Ebisu All > Purpose and if I don't retighten the D ring once a day it is sure to > ghost shift on the first hill. I have been over the shifters and > whole system with a magnifying glass and have yet to find the cause. > > Michael > > On Apr 5, 7:38 am, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 16:57 -0700, Crank wrote: > > > I have an Atlantis 61cm that has ghost shifted on me continuosly until > > > I modified my cassette. I went from a Shimano 9 speed to an IRD 8 > > > speed, but kept the 9 speed chain. Wide gap in cassette, narrow chain > > > gives me lots of room to friction shift. What you may be experiencing > > > is frame flex, that stretches the cable and creates a shift. > > > > Odds on that are very small, unless the frame in question is something > > like an aluminum Alan. If the frame is any kind of Rivendell (I no > > longer recall) it's just flat out impossible. > > > > There are many things that can cause ghost shifting, especially when you > > friction-shift hyperglide cassettes. Occasionally it's the shift lever > > -- you have to really crank down HARD on the D rings with Silver > > shifters, far more so than would be conceivable with ordinary friction > > downtube shifters -- to keep them from slipping. But far more often > > it's the basic nature of the cassette itself: it wants to shift, it's > > designed to make that very easy, and if the chain isn't perfectly > > aligned (indexing can do, but it's very hard to do with a friction shift > > because you get no clues that alignment isn't precisely, exactly > > perfect) it'll shift under load. > > > > Widening the gap between sprockets makes accurate friction shifting > > considerably easier. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
