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Going to move my brake levers outboard of my shifters, but do I need some sort of blanking plate to fill the gap on the shifter where the window housing used to be? The shifters are shimano LX.
Thanks
Yes. I think some shifters come with them, but my old LX ones didn't.
I made some from a scrap sheet of carbon fibre and I think i stuck a small piece of inner tube underneath to try & create a weather seal.
Depending on your shifters, you might be able to get proper ones though.
XT ones have the backing plate on the shiter already.
Not to sure about LX. Sorry. 😳
SLX have them also, but tbh, black insulation tape works fine.... doesnt affect shifting, but they are wrecked fairly quickly from grit and water ingress.
I just Helicopter tape on the older style XT shifters..
No dramas, as yet...
Just give them a flush out WD40,no windows on my XT's and not bothered with tape and the right hand one has got the bottom cracked off and had no probs for 12 month's!
month's what?
(sorry, got a lot of pedantry to use up before it goes out of date at the end of the year)
Park Innertube patches make quite a neat job of this. Performance with other brands may vary.