Today's stream of consciousness...
Mechanical hassles.
Mech at LBS says the rear half of the downtube shifters I chose are not suited to other dyna-sys stuff, and (while the front non-indexed shifter works fine) he demo'd the problem by showing that the indexed rear missed a couple shifts on the way to bigger/lower gears.
I can't remember exactly where, but on the cassette, in a couple places two index down-shifts (to lower gears) would yield only one real shift, and the at the end, it wouldn't get up onto the biggest cog (the lowest 10th gear).
He's suggesting he'll talk to shimano, or someone in their supply chain, and that the simplest solution might be swapping out the dyna-sys rear derailleur for a non-dyna-sys one (but still 10-speed, one which he thinks should work with the indexed rear downtube shifter).
Short notice, but any ideas? I'll be over there again about 1-1:30 p.m. tomorrow, maybe having to make some decisions one way or another.
I know that mtb gearing, let alone the newer dyna-sys is not a very high priority on a road bike forum, but the bike is looking really nice.
There were a zillion choices on the way in (and I'd like to have chosen most of them, and stuck them all together, picasso-like), and we tried to narrow it down right, but now this has come up.
Again, any ideas?
Mechanical hassles.
Mech at LBS says the rear half of the downtube shifters I chose are not suited to other dyna-sys stuff, and (while the front non-indexed shifter works fine) he demo'd the problem by showing that the indexed rear missed a couple shifts on the way to bigger/lower gears.
I can't remember exactly where, but on the cassette, in a couple places two index down-shifts (to lower gears) would yield only one real shift, and the at the end, it wouldn't get up onto the biggest cog (the lowest 10th gear).
He's suggesting he'll talk to shimano, or someone in their supply chain, and that the simplest solution might be swapping out the dyna-sys rear derailleur for a non-dyna-sys one (but still 10-speed, one which he thinks should work with the indexed rear downtube shifter).
Short notice, but any ideas? I'll be over there again about 1-1:30 p.m. tomorrow, maybe having to make some decisions one way or another.
I know that mtb gearing, let alone the newer dyna-sys is not a very high priority on a road bike forum, but the bike is looking really nice.
There were a zillion choices on the way in (and I'd like to have chosen most of them, and stuck them all together, picasso-like), and we tried to narrow it down right, but now this has come up.
Again, any ideas?
