Author Topic: Custom shifter  (Read 26108 times)

Lefty

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Custom shifter
« on: July 11, 2014, 05:50:24 pm »
This is in response to J6s comment about how good my FT looks(in a photo, ahaha!)-when I first got the bike, it had a really long shifter on it, I was unaware of the original set up. I had to shift with my heel on the left peg! It didn't take long to realize the tab on the frame was broken off, so I cut the shifter(I had to cut it a second time, 1st time it was still too long)& had a friend weld it together.
A little black paint & a dental floss stitch job on the split rubber and Viola!
I'm still wondering how it got broken off?

J6G1Z

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Re: Custom shifter
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2014, 09:24:48 pm »
Wow! That looks funky. How is it to shift now?

Do you know what the original shifter & linkage looks like? It looks to me like you lost a lot of leverage in your shifter.


J.

Lefty

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Re: Custom shifter
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2014, 07:06:27 am »
It shifts fine, I don't know how the link type shifter feels so I have nothing to compare it to.
 It had to have been dropped on something to break the frame tab like that.

Lefty

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Re: Custom shifter
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2014, 07:08:18 am »
Or maybe it was hacked off, but why?

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Re: Custom shifter
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2014, 11:33:26 am »
Most likely it was dropped on something that contacted the shifter boss that is attached to that bracket & then bent or broke that tab off. That frame tab is not a very thick piece of steel, although it is in a position that you would normally think looks well protected by the frame tubing.

I would watch eBay for a new shifter & linkage, then fab a new tab to have welded back in place. Or... leave it the way it is if it works for you.

Good luck
J.

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Re: Custom shifter
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2014, 10:32:28 pm »
Man, that looks like it would be REALLY hard to shift! ???

Lefty

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Re: Custom shifter
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2014, 06:29:51 pm »
It shifts fine, a lot better than when I first got it & had to shift with my heel on the peg!

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Re: Custom shifter
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2014, 12:52:13 pm »
Hey there Lefty,

Here is what a stock shifter looks like, just in case you've never seen one before.

J.