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This seems like a safe space to admit I like dual control shifters.
As a huge fan of Rapid Rise, that my be pushing things a little too far tbh, tbf.
This seems like a safe space to admit I like dual control shifters.
If you're riding more than one bike with conventional shifting then you'll never get used to rapid rise.
I prefer it tbh as I have it on the only bike I can now comfortably ride which is my Koga Miyata Balance. I've modified it somewhat but essentially it's pretty much standard.
If you're doing more time and miles on bikes with conventional shifting, I think it's a question of muscle memory more than the ability of the gearing system.
Typo, I meant convert a SRAM Attack LH shifter to 8/9 speed.Hi, I;m new to this forum but not to Rapid Rise. I've been running it for about 20 years now. Still discovering things about it.
I like Rapid Rise for street (not road) riding because if you get jammed up in traffic you can dump a bunch of gears when stopped instead of taking off in high gear. This mostly applies to 1x bikes, because front derailers are low normal and you can dump gears there. This requires a gripshifter so you can change as many gears as you want. So commuter bikes, DH bikes, and a lot of others used it. Shimano Revoshifters were available in 7/8 speeds, but I've never seem any in 9. The Shimano stuff shifts backwards too. The 8 speed stuff is ultra rare now.
I've run SRAM Gripshifts. But the spring load is backwards to the derailer, and they shift backwards too. Except for one I just found in my junk pile.
I converted My 2004 Gary Fisher Solstice to an E bike with a 1500W BBSHD. Kept the 8 speed Rapid Rise. Mid cage XTR derailer.
The problem with the SRAM gripshifts is they're so hard to upshift if it rains it's almost impossible. The Shimano with the almost smooth shift area is almost as bad.
In my junk pile yesterday I found a set of SRAM Rocket 1/2 pipe 3x 9 speed shifters. I bough the pair mostly to see if I could convert the low normal LH one to 8 speed. I never looked at the RH one until yesterday. When mounted on the RH side the clamp bolt is facing up, The Rocket decal is on the bottom, and the cable change plug is down by gear#1. I can't find a picture or reference to another one like it. Rocket is a Shimano compatible shifter. This seems to be a Rapid Rise version of the SRAM 1/2 Pipe. Not only that it works in the normal direction. Of course that means if I put it on one of my Rapid Rise bikes, the other will be backwards. LOL. I may have found a way to convert some of the RH SRAM Attack shifters to this configuration. Waiting on parts. It might actually work the way it is. But I want the part with the 1-8 gear numbers.