Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Friction Shifters
- Thread starter Dale 1956
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mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Well if you won't look where you're going...
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
SIS downtube levers on two of my bikes, I moved with the modern world....30 years ago ! 
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Ah but are you allowed to ride em again yet?SIS downtube levers on two of my bikes, I moved with the modern world....30 years ago !
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Ah but are you allowed to ride em again yet?
No.
And I am not either (my decision).
I ride the Ribble on the Turbo, but the posh bike hasn't moved in 4 years... shame.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
TBH there are 2 of mine I daren't ride these days too.
PS All three road bikes are fully ready, but I isn't. (gathering dust, fully serviced as usual) I'll take the mahosive 650b just down the road and get on farm tracks. My days with traffic are gone. The Boardman FS Pro is a big beastie. ! But minimal traffic - can't do it again.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
Yep my 2 fast bikes are just too twitchy, falling off would be a world of pain.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Yep far superior to dual control shifters.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Mine is the fact of my broken back. 3 road bikes that haven't got out of the garage since. My wife would kill me first, but my love of the road has gone - never riding with the idiot drivers again. Sorry, but the injury I had, never again - I'll get broken by a rock instead, not a driver.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
With me it's the femur that was snapped into 3 bits, I'd not want to whack that one.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Quite !
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
My old tourer has Suntour Vx rear and Arx front with stem mounted Suntour friction shifters.
The idea of them being nutcrackers, I mean. If you stop that sharply the stem will (or quill in my case) will have the desired effect of stopping any chance of being a father.
It has panniers so I must get out to shops sometime soon
The idea of them being nutcrackers, I mean. If you stop that sharply the stem will (or quill in my case) will have the desired effect of stopping any chance of being a father.
It has panniers so I must get out to shops sometime soon
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Was there a Don Quixote bit in that clip where a group of cyclists discovered a convenient post to lock their bikes to during a snowstorm and discovered that by the morning the snow had gone?
iandg
Legendary Member
- Location
- Dumfries and Galloway
I'm using bar end shifters on 3 bikes but in index mode. My MTB has the Deore thumb shift. When I put gears on my old Raleigh (currently fixed with Henry Burton decals) I use down tube friction.
As mentioned up-post, you soon get used to them and shifting smoothly from one sprocket to another soon becomes instinctive and the choice to switch from index to friction is a useful option when things go wrong.
As mentioned up-post, you soon get used to them and shifting smoothly from one sprocket to another soon becomes instinctive and the choice to switch from index to friction is a useful option when things go wrong.
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