"Werehatrack" wrote in message
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:13:32 GMT, "Robin Hubert"
may have said:

So, didja buy it?

As admitted elsewhere, it followed me home (honest it did)...and then
I found another assembly screwup. The front der cable was clamped
wrong; the cable was running through the clamp on the wrong side of
the tab, which shortened the travel and increased the effort on the
shifter. Since the below-bottom-of-the-line SRAM gripshifters use
just about the crummiest excuse for a threaded plastic adjuster that
I've ever encountered, the adjuster would leap over its threads to the
fully relaxed position if there was enough tension on it. And, since
the short throw on the arm meant that the der was going to hit the
stop (or the chain) if the cable was adjusted to provide proper
shifting in and out of the smaller cogs, the tension was guaranteed to
go critical when the grip got twisted toward 3, so just about any
shift to the big ring was trashing the adjustment.

After all the tweaking, it rides OK, for a sub-basement-level unit.
It'll probably become the one that I am most willing to toss in the
back of the van as emergency/gopher wheels when traveling. Now I just
need to take the minitorch out there and solder the cable ends where
the crummy crimps already fell off.

In my automotive performance days, I'd have regarded a project like
this as "buying a kit"; all the parts are there, but essentially
complete assembly and tuning required.



$35 + tax is a couple taxi rides. Definitely worth it.



--
Robin Hubert