Regarding friction and 9 speed: I've shifted 9 and 10 speed cassettes, both stock and home-brew (9 sp), with both down tube and Power Ratchet friction shifters, on and off road -- no particular problem; I did not find it any harder than with 7 or 8. Perhaps I have very sensitive and caring shifting fingers, so YMMwellV. Or perhaps I just didn't care about shifting precision. Or perhaps it's just practice.
FWIW again, you can develop to a surprising degree the ability to climb in higher gears, as I did when I switched to fixed and ss exclusively, but then again, that's a matter of taste, too. (I'm 54 and have been averaging about 3K miles a year, so I'm no Lance.) In any event, please describe (and link photos of) your solution. On 11/15/09, Seth Vidal <skvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 05:57 -0800, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote: >>> SRAM 10s brifters, SRAM bar-ends, or XX MTB shifters will shift on the >>> XX cassette. >> >> That's not what SRAM's web site says. They say you need the XX >> derailleur which is incompatible with brifters and requires the XX MTB >> shifters. (And if there's an SRAM bar end shifter, I've never heard of >> it or seen it.) >> > > There's this one: > http://www.sram.com/node/109/brand/sram-road/src/cat > > and this one > > http://www.sram.com/node/111/brand/sram-road/src/cat > > -sv > > > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.com (505) 227-0523 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
