Hi,

I've been wishing my shift levers would click over quicker. There is some dead-space where they move before clicking, and that extra space can be annoying at times. I'm wondering if there is a way to make my lever more sensitive so I don't have to reach my fingers so much to change gear. Similar to what you can do with the trigger of a paintball gun, giving the trigger less pull. If there is better terminology for this, let me know.

-B

In general, shifters aren't adjustable for that sort of thing at all, unfortunately, and I doubt it would be that easy to modify the internals to do it either.

Hmm. OK. Any idea if Force or Red shifters would be of benefit here?

Yes. SRAM has something called "zero loss technology" which means less free travel before engagement. Red has it on both shifters, Force used to have it on just the left shifter. I think newer Force has it on both too, but you need to check specifically.

FWIW: Personally, I have both Red with ZL and Force without ZL and am not even aware of the difference once riding.

Yeah, I just swapped a broken Rival with a new Force with zero-loss, and it makes a difference. Just buy new ones and save the old as spares.

You could make them watch The Notebook or Eat Pray Love.

There's a tweak you can perform to 9s Ergo levers to reduce the throw (not sure about 10 or 11s).

There's room for the spring carrier to rotate inside the lever body, so I jammed a couple of ziptie offcuts in the two recesses that house two prongs from the carrier that control its range of rotation.

My Mirage lever performs much better minus the built-in overshift, at least through a Shiftmate on a Shimano drivetrain.