mech way rounds???

Will Snow

Right, if my mech naturally goes to the smallest sprocket with no cable is it:
Top normal
Low normal
Rapid rise

or all of the above. Frankly getting annoyed at the lack of help the chainreaction and shimano website has. My shifter works that i can shift to a easier gear with the bottom paddle (so three at a time) and down shift to harder gear (smaller sprocket) one at a time. again, is this
Top normal
Low normal
Rapid rise

Please, someone has gotta know this, i thought i knew, and now i have read so many contradicting reports (doesnt help you can use rapid fire shifter and normal mechs, and vice versa...) i dont know what is what. Cheers guys (and gals)

nicklouse

rapid rise has the spring pulling the mech to the big cog.

normal has the spring pulling the mech to the small cog.

Will Snow

chainreaction wrote:

Top normal spring for use with Rapidfire shifters

So this means the default position will be the big sprocket???

so.....

Top normal = rapid rise = big sprocket

Low normal = conventional shifting = small sprocket

Damn, this bike things quite complex...
Cheers

stu8975

Nooooooo Will

Top normal - conventional shifting - mech naturally goes to the small cog/shifters are conventional shifting

Low normal (rapid rise) - opposite shifting - mech naturally goes to the big cog/shifters will work the opposite, big paddle changes down to harder gear.


Hope this helps

Will Snow

so why the top normal spring for use with rapidfire triggers??? isnt that a contradiction in terms???

stu8975

Rear mechs have always had top normal springs, until the introduction of rapid rise/low normal springs a few years back...rapidfire shifters work correctly with top normal mechs but shift opposite with rapid rise mechs, i think sram do a shimano rapid rise friendly shifter...ps. not everything on chainreactions site is correctly described so i wouldnt read too much into it...if you are changing your mech and it naturally goes to the smallest sprocket then you need a top normal one.

supersonic

Rapidfire is not rapidrise. You can use the shifters with either type of mech - its your own preference.

Will Snow

supersonic wrote:

Rapidfire is not rapidrise. You can use the shifters with either type of mech - its your own preference.

... that expains it then. my bad!!!

nferrar

Yeah Shimano should get 30 lashes for doing low-normal and confusing most average joes out there, took me 10 minutes of explaining in an LBS and playing with different rear mechs to be confident it really was a top-normal replacement I needed (didn't have the old one to hand ).