TurbineBlade

I have an IGH 3-speed that I'd like to use drop bars on. It looks like I could have a regular 1 1/8 stem to mount the drop bars, and to mount the shifter I was thinking about attaching an old threaded stem to that 1 1/8 stem, and then slide the shifter onto it.

So basically it would look like a crazy mess of stems, but I think the diameter of the old threaded stem (22.2) is the same as the flat bar that the shifter was designed for (22.2).

Would this work?

HillRider

This is the part I don't follow. Could you post a drawing of what you propose?

Aside: Do you really know where your "sig line" originated?

Bianchigirll 

I agree, I don't picture where the old 1" stem gets mounted. IIRC someone makes a thing, like a post that clamps ona bar or stem to mount a gripshifter for a 8IGH hub maybe that would work.

clasher

I've seen old bars cut down and used instead of a stem... seems slightly classier.

Mr IGH

Another option is the HubBub, it allows a twist shifter to be installed at the end of the dropbars, like a barcon:
https://harriscyclery.net/product/hub...aptor-1864.htm

TurbineBlade

Yeah, I didn't make that too clear. Basically, I'll have a 1 1/8 threaded modern stem and handlebars. Then, take an old "7" style threaded stem (with the single bolt) and clamp it to the column of the modern stem, with the rest of the "7" stem just hanging outward, wedge and all.

Then remove the wedge, and maybe cut it down a bit, and it's like having a mountain bike bar end sticking out from the stem, providing a place to put a grip shifter.

larry_llama

What brand is your hub? You can buy a bar end or or a downtube shifter for road bikes now:
https://www.sturmey-archer.com/produc...rs/cid/3/id/18

larry_llama

also, I have the above bar style of that shifter and it is very nice.

TurbineBlade

Nexus Inter-3

fietsbob

22.2 = 7/8" seen Pix of putting the grip shifter on the quill of a stem as its that diameter ..

cruising R&E website for the Seattle bike maker,
they offer a clamp on the threadless steerer piece ,
to mount R'off shifters.. theyre 22.2 ID.

This will replace some threadless steerer spacers.

SJS in UK has a T piece that goes under the real threadless stem,
uses less height than a 2nd stem. extension to T is 5 or 10cm.
the diameter of the T is 22.2 so grip shifter compatible.

They ship Quickly to the US, from UK.

others have kludged a bar end to mount a grip shifter,
the bar end clamps on quill stems , like the end of a MTB bar
just wont be 90 degrees , as handle bars have few degrees of sweep back.

silver_ghost

OP, please respond to this. I'd love to give you some advice, but not if you're a white power d-bag. Maybe you aren't, but you really should think about the impression you're giving people.

Mr IGH

ouch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei

"Arbeit macht frei" (German pronunciation: [ˈaɐ̯baɪt ˈmaxt ˈfʁaɪ]; literally "work makes free") is a German phrase that can be translated as "work will make you free," "work liberates"[1] or "work makes one free".[2][3] The slogan is well-known for being placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps, including most famously Auschwitz I, where it was made by prisoners with metalwork skills and erected by order of the Nazis in June 1940.

HillRider

That's precisely why I asked if he really knew what that phrase meant and it's history.

TurbineBlade

(deleted by me -- No, I'm not in any way endorsing any aspect of what happened to people in the 1940's -- I find it disgusting, and merely created the signature as a reminder)

TurbineBlade

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jgedwa

Put me in the group of people who read the sig and winced. Yuck. In the absence of any context or explanation, I assumed the OP thought it was cute.

jim

TurbineBlade

This was my mistake. I assumed that people would (like myself) be embarassed to be called human having known that people were capable of doing such dispicable things to other people.

I meant it as more of a thing to remember and reflect upon -- that's the only reason I had it up.

HillRider

Thank you for your response and it's comforting to know it wasn't done with malice or from ignorance. I certainly don't want to politicize this forum but some things do raise a question.

TurbineBlade

Sure - at first I was so completely confused that anyone would think that I meant it to be taken as a swipe at a group of people, but I understand that it's probably naiive to think that way and that many people sadly do.

No problems. Lesson learned.

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As to (or "about" for grammar junkies) the actual post: I'm going to try to test a different problem I'm having with the same bike (wheel slippage) first, then I'll report if my stem idea works well.

Thanks,

silver_ghost

A lot of people seem to take the anonymity of the internet as a license to air views they'd never admit to in "real life". Glad to see you aren't one of them, TurbineBlade.
Kurt Vonnegut is a much better source to quote anyway. See Bluebeard for his take on the holocaust and WWII, and the posthumously published Armageddon in Retrospect, a collection of essays about war and violence. He had an amazing mind and wit.

TurbineBlade

Will do. I haven't read Mother Night or Bluebeard -- but I loved Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, and Slaughterhouse Five (especially this one - read it twice just last year).

His retrospect book I'll probably save for later .