Originally Posted by
mountaindave
I'm no expert, but I don't recall Suntour making any lever shifters (DT or Barcon) without a friction mode. I would grab them along with a DT clamp on cable stop.
Originally Posted by
HTupolev
Loads of Accushift shifters lack true friction modes.
Many of them instead have "soft index" modes that combine the indexing with a friction plate. So each click puts the shifter to within the *vicinity* of a given cog, but you still trim the shift.
That "index/friction" switch thing was a Shimano innovation that they enforced after the first year or so of Accushift.
The "light indexing" I'm familiar with (6 & 7 speed Command Shifters and 8 speed SL and Superbe Pro) is just indexing with a lighter click- but I don't notice any room to trim.
IMG_0063 by
Dave The Golden Boy, on Flickr
Accushift 7/8 Speed by
Dave The Golden Boy, on Flickr
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Last edited by The Golden Boy; 10-25-18 at 04:15 PM.
Reason: Added the 7/8 speed pic.