beaker said:Can the stock 9 gear derailer and shifter be adjusted to work with 5-6 or 7 gears?
andy1956 said:deralier should be able to be adjusted to accomodate less movement.
sheldon brown said:Indexed Shifters These need to have the spacing of detents ("clicks") to match the system they'll be used with. This usually goes along with the correct number of clicks -- though a shifter with an extra click also can work, as long as the spacing is OK. (Friction shifters have no compatibility issues, they work with everything.)
beaker said:Can the stock 9 gear derailer and shifter be adjusted to work with 5-6 or 7 gears?
wturber said:Many people may find imperfect index shifting unacceptable. But I've spent about 99% of my riding time using friction shifters, so the imperfect operation doesn't bug me at all.
Chalo said:wturber said:Many people may find imperfect index shifting unacceptable. But I've spent about 99% of my riding time using friction shifters, so the imperfect operation doesn't bug me at all.
Noisy chain and sprocket operation, stuttering, and skipping are more serious than a mind it/don't mind it issue. It greatly accelerates wear and tear on the components when the derailleur is constantly guiding the chain to an in-between position that doesn't correspond with a sprocket. Lightly engaging the shift-assisting features on the chain and sprockets without actually shifting gradually wears those features away. In a worst case, the chain can skip or drop off when you're standing on the pedals to get up to speed, and a crash results.
Friction shifting allows you to make minor trim adjustments for quiet, smooth operation. Incorrect index shifting doesn't. That's why early index shifters came with a friction mode that could be enabled in case of system damage that misaligned the index positions from the sprockets.
999zip999 said:Dnp has a 9speed 11t freewheel . I would use a friction shifters old school.
wturber said:My system wasn't noisy, didn't stutter, and only skipped in two middle to low gears - which was the "imperfection" that I was dealing with. And that skipping had always gone away with one click up or down. After that, no noise, stutter or skip.
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That begs the question of how things could run quietly given the spacing differences.