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gtogreen1969
PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:42 pm 
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Hobson wrote:
Maybe they need a universal rename to ShortShifts
Some are named correctly. https://www.minimania.com/part/C-22A175 ... Rod-Change
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$300?! That's absurd. I'm with Doc on this. Get the hacksaw out...

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Cutting the lever short doesn't make it a short shifter...

You need to lengthen the shifter under the pivoting cup, raise the pivot point and then you have a short shifter.

http://www.build-threads.com/project-51 ... -shifting/

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drmini in aust
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Sure it does, theory of levers. Cut in half it has 1/2 the travel...
And twice as hard to push too.

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