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Will an alfine work with a friction shifter?
Or will an alfine work with any roadie shifter? I'm thinking someone somewhere must have found a way to run an alfine in a fixie frame and keep the drop bars?
Yes it would work with a friction shifter if you could always shift it to the right point but I reckon in reality you'd run the risk to trashing it as it's not properly in gear.
look up j-tech - think they were mentioned in STW - i think sideways have them, allow you to shift the alfine and keep drop bars.
edit - on-one have them.
I have looked into this to convert a drop bar Genesis Day 01 to internal hub gearing. JTek bar end shifters are unlikely to be found now, the man behind them is ill and production has ceased. Sideways should have drop bar STIs to work with an Alfine hub, Virsa I think they are called. Alfine hubs don't like friction shifters much, I wouldn't go down that route personally.
There are some people that have lashed together a 'toogle' to correct the pull ratio of alternative shifters but they don't seem to work very well.
Just checked the j-tech website, it's up and running again as the son has taken over.
That is excellent news, thanks 😀
£75!
Given that bar end shifters are a PITA anyway (IMO) as they force you to ride right down on the drops I recon I'd rather live with some kind of bodge to get a normal alfine shifter onto the tops bars.
Wonder why they didnt make the hub the same pull as their old 8speed groupsets, would have made life soo much easier.
Back to the drawing board
I guess you could fit a bracket coming forward off the bar and attach the rapidfire shifter to it. Something like this but smaller -
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I have been looking at doing the same thing. The only gear hub with internal indexing is the Rohloff as far as I know.
You can damage an internal gear hub if the shifts aren't accurate, so I wouldn't go down the friction shifter idea.
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