Originally Posted by
Grand Bois
You must have downloaded documentation for an S5. The S5-2 works as you describe yours does.
I have a NOS steel shelled S5-2. What are you going to use for a shifter? I have the stem shifters, but from What Sheldon said about them, I'm afraid I'm not going to like them.
Yes that was the page I took my info from. To me at least it did not clearly indicate that for the S5-1 and S5-2 the left cable operation was reversed so that a tight cable on the S5 is the same as a loose cable on the S5-2 for gear selection purposes. IMO it could be stated much more implicitly.
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