Has anyone attempted mounting twist shifters to this bar?
1741162
I see no reason why not. I take my brakes and shifters from straight bars to the trekkers in no time.
1741163
I have not. But I don't see why it would be an issue as long as the shifters are for the same diameter bars.
331848
Hi. Just grabbed one to try and I couldn't do it. It doesn't snap and I bent it back and forth several times with no luck. I'm sure it would work at some point but it would not be easy.
1757912
Mounting brackets are round, however I do not use them. I use only the tension of this bar and it has held up to 180 lbs of weight without give. The bar does not turn using the tension.
97340
I believe I used a wrench to pull it up around the bar.... There might be a you tube video about it.
2282893
Not inside, but right alongside it. If you want you can wrap the handlebar tape over the top of it or carefully cut the end off of your grips and route it under those too. This is very tricky and you might have difficulty doing that. Or you can have it move away from the bar rather quickly which works well with drop bars. You can do a google image search for "bar end shifters" and see a bunch of pictures of how people have them set up. If you want to move these shifters to the handlebars there is a mount sold by Velo Orange that will allow them to be turned into "thumbie" type shifters seen on mountain bikes but they are $58 http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/vo-thumb-shifter-mounts-22-2-23-8.html It would be cheaper to find some 8-speed MTB trigger shifters but the issue there is that often the indexing of the front trigger shifting would be MTB indexing and not road indexing. It depends on what you have on your 'bent. Personally I would probably go with the VO mounts myself. These bar-ends are such a good deal for HIGH quality shifters that even having to pay more for the mounts you still get a deal IMHO. Quality bar-ends used to run $140+ a few years back.
1900378
Possibly, but I would try it. Spin lock bars are so much better then these things. I was very happy to make the switch.
890246
This comes with 2 two sided threaded adapters that allow threading to 4 different sizes that will allow you to attach it to most threaded shifters. If you can take the old knob off your shifter and it has a threaded end it should work. If not you and you have a standard metal post you should be able to thread the end if you want to invest that amount of work
953820
When you say "twist" do you mean to unlock it in order to change directions? If so mine just took a bit of loosening. I smacked it with a hammer a few times and then was able to reverse the twist with no issue. Ended up working perfectly when I needed to remove the rusted set screws holding the brake rotors on my 2007 Acura MDX. 7 years/75k miles and have never been changed so they were really rusted in there. Two smacks a piece and they came right out!
1286787
They do have these for twist shifters also. The shorter version will probably work but check with the seller too.
1862566
Actually, I swapped out a set of mountain bike handlebars for this unit. To answer your question, if the stem of the gooseneck is fully inserted into the frame column, it probably won't be an issue. Because I wanted a higher profile, I raised my gooseneck an inch or two - which made the right brake cable a bit tight on right turns. To compensate, I made a quick fix by taking my finger and just looping the brake cable to the right side of the gooseneck. The other shift and left brake cables didn't require any compensation at all - worked just fine.
1536901
They are held in place by a standard bmx-style "goose neck." It's two u-shaped bars that clamp down using four Allen screws. If you had the correct wrench, it shouldn't take more than a minute to rotate them down. Do you need me to measure height with bars rotated down?
1667450
I don't see any reason why they wouldn't work. The grips are really only flared at the ends...towards where the shifters are they're pretty much like any other grips. You can always return them on amazon as well for free.
1134029
My experience has been no. I have a standard and threaded bar. They are awesome on the standard bar, however they are loose on the threaded bar.
604226
We have this gym for not that long but didn't have that issue as you explained. It shouldn't be twisted if installed properly from what we know. Our cable is not twisted like you mentioned. Sorry for not being very helpful to you.
1183803
when you look at the bottom of the bars on the RH side i believe(sorry, i'm at work and would not be able to check for sure), there are 2 screws that you need allen wrenches/keys to turn and you just need to loosen both up then extend it to the length you need then tighten it after. It's really easy to do.
461234
My touring bike has a Rohloff grip shifter on the right side. I used a stock set of Ergons and cut the one side to fit w/o problem.
1309568
Pretty close. I only had to do about 35 degrees. there is a slot that you have to point in the direction of the bend, so if you don't drill the holes in the right rotation you'll find out afterward that you have the slot facing the wrong direction.