[Closed] who rides with shifter windows still attached?

newbs and povs

people with all the gear and no idea

😉

I have 8 spd XTs on one bike. Do the indicators come off?

My shifters have the windows on because I run the brake levers outside and it's hassle to take them off. They are getting pretty smashed up, wierdly.

id do but if i remove mine it leave two holes in them and id rather have the windows than the holes 😉

I've still got the shifter windows on, but I've got my brakes on the inside anyway 😕

This is X7 though.

XT shifter window is still on on the lever for the rear gears but is off on the lever for the front gears. Brakes on the inside.

[i]it leave two holes in them and id rather have the windows than the holes[/i]

Had this issue on my LX shifters so I just stuck some helicopter tape over the hole.

Me. Given that I only ever ride in the big rig and smallest sprocket*, I don't see the bother.

Brakes are mounted outside.

*This may be a teensy bit of a lie.... 🙂

nuke, how do you mount the brake inside of the lever with the window on?

do you have very long brake levers? tried it once but can't get finger onto lever too easily/comfortably.

stick some gaffa tape or similar over holes once window removed.

I do, always have with triggers (prefer Gripshift anyway).

[i]how do you mount the brake inside of the lever with the window on?[/i]

Whoops, wrote that wrong 😳 ...my brake levers are on the outside. Sorry alpin

Who gives a toss?

mr toss from tossbottom in tossshire. who's asking?

I ride with my windows on my shifters, I don't see any need for me to remove them. I have my brake levers on the outside and the shifter windows don't get in the way of anything or annoy me

Just ride the flippin bike !.

🙄

CC.

As its your gf's bike you're borrowing, maybe she would object to you hacking off the windows?!!

I could never remember which way the indicators went 🙁

I remember thinking christmas had come early when I took the windows off my '09 XT shifters and there was a lovely little manhole cover clipped onto the underside.

Well done Shimano 🙂

I do, on the ss 🙂

gaffa tape....

it's technically still my bike, she's just allowed to use it.

I don't think I can get them off the Deore shifters (that cam with the bike)

Thumbies here with inherent indicatoring. Just had to take a sharp knife to the rubber to make them fit with the new brake lever though.

They tried to make me ride with windows i said no, no, no.

Maybes Aye, Maybes Noh.

I've always left them on. But there again, I'm a newbie. Or at least I was in 1992 when I first bought a mountain bike. What's a POV?

Rather ride than waste time fretting over something so trivial, IMHO of course.

i do, how else would i know what gear i was in... duh.

I ride with my shifet windows still and have no problem one finger braking but then i do use my middle finger.

Ah - is this some sort of test to see how gnarly one is?

SRAM triggers here - I find I can run them on the inside, have one finger braking and still reach both paddles with my thumb.

mick - Member

id do but if i remove mine it leave two holes in them and id rather have the windows than the holes

Do they not all come with a spare blank cover? (underneath the shifter window thingey irc). My SLXs did.

Do you need a blanking plate/cap when the window is removed...?

me

A bit of tape works fine (though the window has never interfered with bar position, on XT anywany). Personally, the only reason to take 'em off is not so much the weight saving as the annoying rattle they develop.

Does Microsoft really have a version of windows for bikes too? 😀

Whatever next!

I do, but that saying that im not a weight watcher so does it matter? and how much weight would your bike lose by taking them out??

My deore on my trek doesn't have them, and i think that the new slx ones on my p7 can be removed and have a little disc to go in place.

Strangely it took me maybe a 2 years to get round to removing mine even though the windows were smashed and the rear wasn't even working. A tyre patch makes a good cover for the hole. they do save the tops of the lever's in certain "upside down repair" situations..

Actually I miss having then on my rh xtr shifter, but no choice seeing as they dont do them.
At least the xt lh shifter still has them.

I like pictures.

I've always ridden with windows and still have them on one bike. Does anyone really [i][b]never[/b][/i] look at their cassette to verify which gear they're in when they don't have an indicator? Seriously?

I've recently removed the windows from my XT shifters, for the only reason that I needed to shift my Hope Tech levers inboard.

Here's a picture of my bike. This is a little while ago, so it's not the same now.
There are gear indicators in this photograph.

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I'm still running XT combi brake/gear levers with the windows on. Will I go faster if I cut the windows off?

Me. But i'm not very gnarr, stoked etc and my shifters are only "cheapo".

However, if I borrowed my wife's bike and altered it in anyway I would wake up to find my goolies (quite rightly) in a jar by the bed.

Is the colour of your GFs bike OK or are you going to have it resprayed for the period of the loan? 😉

Does anyone really never look at their cassette to verify which gear they're in when they don't have an indicator? Seriously?

I never do - what's the point?
If the gear feels right for what I'm doing, it is - if it doesn't, it's not & I'll change up or down till it does

X7 with the indicator in the band. Inside, outside, run 'em where you like. I have one for the rear and X9 for the front - I know which ring I'm in mostly and you can always feel if there is another one with the paddle rather than look anyway.

Brakes on the inside for maximum leverage (with my middle finger) and the shifter paddles in the sweet spot.

I use the indicator so that I know when I'm in fifth and should be changing to the big ring - rather than crossing too much or finding that big jump in ratio that ruins cadence when you shift into the big ring too late.

I do seem to use the big ring much more since I built a singlespeed as my second bike - the SS has improved my pedalling style (round & round rather than up & down) and strength alot.

nha, colour is fine. it's my old bike so i can't complain too much about the colour.

i never use the window thingies as i generally know what gear i'm in; kept simpler as i've only two rings up front.

i thought most people rode sans windows.... obvioulsy not. [-]gnar.

I didnt know anyone seriously cared apart from wierdo weight weenies trying to shed about 10 grams

nowt to do with weight. my HT weighs 14.4kg....!

mamadirt not that i can see on mine i think they came on the year after mine . mine are 07 iirc xt ones but ive took them off before and not seen any covers unless they are hidden away somehow

Mick - I removed mine so that I could run the brake lever inboard and almost put it back on when I saw the gaping hole that was left, then noticed the little STX logo'd disc tucked underneath the part I'd taken off . . . looks like [url= http://images.fotopic.net/?iid=yzwcs4&noresize=1&nostamp=1&quality=70 ]this[/url].

mama i certainly didnt see anything like that in my windows but i will have another look i think later 😉