Which shifter goes to the front ?

Brocade
Brocade Posts: 433
edited September 2013 in Workshop
Sorry for the really daft question, but I am going back to a bike after years and trying to install SRAM Rival shifters...which shifter goes to the front derailleur please ? Many thanks
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  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    The one on the left. It will click two (or three) times only.
  • Brocade
    Brocade Posts: 433
    Thanks a lot...
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  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Are you sure?
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

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  • plet
    plet Posts: 34
    But there's no real technical reason for that is there? I'd guess that it's only that way by convention because most people are right handed
  • plet
    plet Posts: 34
    Err, thinking about it, I'm an idiot, of course there is. I was thinking of braking
  • monkimark
    monkimark Posts: 1,928
    left and right hand shifters are assymetric so the left one has to go on the left hand side if you want to be able to use it.
    The left shifter has less clicks so has to be used for the front mech.

    i can't see how you could swap them around.
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    You cant swap them,

    as for braking, that is entirely your choice.
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

    PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
    B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    Can Di2/EPS etc. be configured to drive the mechs with either shifter?
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  • crescent
    crescent Posts: 1,201
    rubertoe wrote:
    You cant swap them,

    as for braking, that is entirely your choice.


    Absolutely, the double-tap lever has to be moved towards the inside of the handlebars to change gear, I wouldn't want to try and use them the other way round. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the levers are contoured to suit left and right handlebar as appropriate. Brakes can be either way and just a matter of running the cable to the preferred caliper.
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