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7/11 I broke one of the shifters on my circa 91 hard rock and I need
a replacement. Anyone know of a shop in the south bay that might
be able to get a replacement and install it for me? My shifter
is a suntour (sp?) if that makes any difference. ----ranga
\_ It's not very likely that you'll be able to find above-bar
thumb shifters at a bike shop. Suntour is out of business and for
the past several years all mountain bikes have had under-bar
shifters or something equally distasteful. You could replace
both shifters, but they'd probably be indexed for 8 or 9 gears
instead of the 7 you likely have on your bike. Shimano is the
Microsoft of the bike world. -tom
\_ I had the "quick-shift" style shifter if it makes any
difference. I wouldn't mind replacing both shifters,
but I though that switching to Shimano means that I
would have to replace the entire gear system as well.
Do you know if that is the case? Thanks. ----ranga
\_ Almost certainly not for the front shifter. For the
rear shifter, it depends on the freewheel spacing and
the indexing in the shifter. It's reasonably likely
you'd need to replace your freewheel, but a bike store
probably would know better than me, I haven't dealt with
the under-bar shifters much. -tom |
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