Opted to move shifters from the DT to the handle bar on my next bike*. Riv offers Paul Thumbies set up to work with Shimano bar end or with Riv Silver Shifters. Among my vintage hoard are more Simplex Retrofriction and Campy DT shifters than any human should be allowed. Believe Campy and Retrofriction will work with the Silver Shifter set. Anyone try this?
OTOH, am going with the Jeff Jones modified Shimano 9 speed to 6 speed cassette. I understand indexing will work on the correct set up. What do those using the Thumbie / Shimano combo think of the shifting? Now for the give away - As you may have deduced from the preceding paragraph, this bike will be a 1x6 (and 1 depending on where I use it). Whichever combo I go with, I will not need the front thumbie. I suppose someone out there is doing a 2x or 3x 1 set up and can use a front only thumbie. Or maybe someone wants to shift the front from the top of the bar and the rear from the bar end or DT. Or most likely, someone managed to bust a front thumbie but the rear is working perfect. Whichever, when I get my order will happily ship the unused rear thumbie free of cost to anyone who actually needs it. ( I know all to well from personal experience hoarding is a disease - I don't want to contribute to anyone else's malady ;). I will be making my order soon, so can send the other half soon (wonder if Riv would agree to mail to you direct?) *Bike is not a Riv, but will be made by near to Riv builder Curtis Inglis. I will be reposting build pics in the Velocipedesalon bikes section Retrotec string if anyone is interested. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
