Calling all Dura Ace bar-end shifter users!

[mickle]

I got to the gear cable installation segment of my Wayfarer build to discover that my gosh darned RH shifter is bollocksed. The 3rd, 4th and 5th clicks feel terrible and there's an awful scratchy sound emanating from it. Aren't these things supposed to last *forever*? I've left it to soak in machine oil o'er night in the hope that it's saveable. But FFS the whole point of these things is that they last for many tens of thousands of miles.

 

[presta]

I've had 14000, 10000, and 13000 miles out of my levers. The current ones have done 6000, so they're about half-worn.

 

[rogerzilla]

The 9 speed ones have a rep for early death. One of mine is knackered and only the lowest 5 gears have clear clicks.

 

[raleighnut]

They are 'switchable' to friction use though.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

If it’s 9 speed , I have one on my recumbent I’ll be removing. My left hand dura ace wouldn't hold it in big ring as a bit of plastic cracked. I’ve got replacement Diacompe which are all metal. I need to check I have a spare rear gear cable before I get round to the RH lever, I’ve already swapped the left lever. I run friction anyway.

 

[fossyant]

Bloody cheap rubbish. Dura Ace went down hill after 7400 8 speed.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Bloody cheap rubbish. Dura Ace went down hill after 7400 8 speed.

You don’t need gears for downhill

 

[mickle]

I tells thee what tho. Microsoft 9 speed bar-end shifters are head and shoulders above Dura-Ace in terms of quality and finish when you see them together.

 

[rogerzilla]

SunRace ones are nice too. As DA components go, the bar end shifters are probably the nastiest.