While I find the Microshifts less precise than the equivalent Shimano shifters, I think in practice they work fine. I've never had to "nudge the pulley" as you say in order to upshift. Occasionally a downshift requires a bit more of a nudge, but it isn't frequent. Most of the time I just use them and don't think about it, as it should be with a shifter.
On the upside, I find the Microshift units are far more impervious to copious quantities of sweat. I live in Austin, Texas and I sweat a lot. I've gummed up a couple of Shimano bar end shifters to the point that even soaking them in turpentine or alcohol for a week would not free them up. I've never had this problem with the Microshift units and I have 4 years under my belt with the pair on my Road Standard. Further to the OP's point, I would prefer to switch my Clem from friction to 8sp indexed. The Microshift model for the 8 speed indexed downtube shifters is SL-D08. Those should bolt right on the thumb mount. Has anyone seen those in the wild? I did find the 8 speed bar-ends in the wild, I guess one could disembowel one of those to change an existing 8 speed friction thumbie to indexed, and then try to find a downtube in 9, 10, or 11 and use the bar end mounts for one of those. http://www.bikeman.com/LD0210.html?utm_source=GoogleBase&utm_medium=GoogleBase&utm_campaign=GoogleBase&gclid=CjwKCAjwhevaBRApEiwA7aT536as9fAcE_mIt8pOBvAq1pxLLdaTi0SglfBXUgbteR8uQv-xObI3QxoCBOAQAvD_BwE Anyway, hope this helps someone. -Jim On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:59 PM Joe Bernard <joerem...@gmail.com> wrote: > The SunRace and Microshift indexing both suffer from not having a very > good re-centering action. I find when I shift to a harder gear (I have > SunRace 8 and Microshift 9) that I have to nudge the lever back a little > bit to settle the pulleys under the cog..like it overshifts a bit, then > doesn't snap back. Shimano bar-ends do it for you. > > -- > 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. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ signature goes here -- 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.
