Next weird question...Down tube shifters

[Bigtallfatbloke]

On my newly acquired Rourke frame I have those little square steel bits for fitting down tube shifters. I have some shifters and can fit them no probs but ideally I would like to get some bar shifters instead, making the down tube shifters defunct.

So here is my question; is there a way of removing or camoflaging the defunct metal square bits once I remove the down tube shifters?

 

[cheadle hulme]

I just dremel'd them off. See pics here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7850659@N05/

Powder coating afterwards meant nobody was the wiser,

 

[mickle]

Woah woah woah!!! Put down the Dremel. You'll need those braze on mounts for your cable stops.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

You'll need those braze on mounts for your cable stops.

Cable stops...erm...que?

Ok i think I understand...you mean the bits that hold the gear cables to the frame? I can see that the little square metal bits would be in a good place but how would they hold the cables?

 

[mickle]

They come with your down tube shifters, screw on to your down tube shifter bosses and provide a pair of stops, with barrel adjusters, for the cable outer which runs from the bar end shifters.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

I'm not sure I under stand you...My downtube shifters dont have anything like that, besides I dont want to use downtube shifters just handlebar shifters....I am probably getting this all wrong..sorry.

Are there cable stops that I can get on their own that just clip over the square bits so they look as if they were designed to be that way in the first place?

 

[mickle]

Are there cable stops that I can get on their own that just clip over the square bits so they look as if they were designed to be that way in the first place?

Sigh. Yes, that's what I'm on about. They come with bar-end shifters as part of the installation kit and convert your 'down-tube shift lever bosses' to 'bar-end shifter cable stops'.

 

[rustychisel]

good call mickle... there'd have been tears before bedtime!!

 

[Proto]

http://www.probikekit.com/display.php?code=A8068

(pic from Ribble Cycles):

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

Ok I get it now..thanks...& thanks for the link Proto, I think I just ned to get them seperatly because I'm not after bar end shifters but those modern ones on the actual front brake hoods type.

 

[PpPete]

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-...air--with-barrel-adjusters--per-pair-5511.htm

or
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/product-...ir--with-barrel-adjusters--per-pair-15277.htm

Wish I had braze-on mounts on my project. Can't get a decent looking band-on version any more. Only big ugly ones. Still as I can't afford the brifters it's probably not relevant.

 

[Landslide]

Ok I get it now..thanks...& thanks for the link Proto, I think I just ned to get them seperatly because I'm not after bar end shifters but those modern ones on the actual front brake hoods type.

The bolt-on downtube stops may well come with the shifters anyway. Check when you're buying, as if not the dealer may be able to find some for you.

 

[just jim]

BTFB - is it the Rourke 953 frame? looks neato.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

..no no...this is an old 531 frame £30

 

[just jim]

It was all the excuse I needed to have a look at their site anway... got a pic of it?