First of all, I love the look of your Collegiate.
Originally Posted by
mkeller234
I don't quite understand what you mean by lost motion, do you mean that it does not start to shift as soon as you move the stem shifter?
Something like that. If I want to go to the big cog, I have to pull all the way back as far as the shifter goes. But it won't shift to the next-to-largest cog until I move the lever perhaps 45 degrees, then it's just a small movement for each additional cog. It's like I have to move it farther than I should need to get get it "over the hump" and then it works normally. The technical term for this is hysteresis, but I'm probably one of the few nerdy engineering types on the forum that know this term.
With the Suntour on there it shifts with much less movement.
The description of the shifters have small throws seems to make sense; maybe I should put the Suntour stem shifter on there and see how it feels.