Grip shift vs rapid fire

22-05.-2003, 08:12 PM	#1
jggraham Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: chatswood area Posts: 17	Grip shift vs rapid fire My grip shift has fallen apart off my iron horse g-out. Sholud i replace it with new gripshift or rapid fire? I have tried my friends rapid fire and it felt a lot better than gripshift and my gripshift used to change gears sometimes, are all grip shift like that or did i get a crap one? __________________ ()0_0()

23-05.-2003, 10:42 PM	#2
MtnBikerChk Community Team Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: USA Posts: 291	is there an echo in here?

25-05.-2003, 11:55 PM	#3
jggraham Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: chatswood area Posts: 17	Well.......Um........thanks for posting... __________________ ()0_0()

25-05.-2003, 11:56 PM	#4
jggraham Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: chatswood area Posts: 17	Woo hoo. its going off in here! __________________ ()0_0()

26-05.-2003, 03:06 AM

Loki

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Re: Grip shift vs rapid fire

Quote:

Originally posted by jggraham
My grip shift has fallen apart off my iron horse g-out. Sholud i replace it with new gripshift or rapid fire?

I have tried my friends rapid fire and it felt a lot better than gripshift and my gripshift used to change gears sometimes, are all grip shift like that or did i get a crap one?

You appeared to answer your own question there.

Like rapid fire better? Go with rapid fire. Want something different? Go with rapid fire. I use it.

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26-05.-2003, 05:50 PM	#6
jggraham Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: chatswood area Posts: 17	thanks for the advice but i have heard from a few mates that grip shift is really good so i am still a little undescided __________________ ()0_0()

29-05.-2003, 10:27 PM

MtnBikerChk

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Quote:

Originally posted by jggraham
Well.......Um........thanks for posting...

Don't post the same question in more than one forum.

http://www.cyclingforums.com/t24544.html

30-05.-2003, 04:55 AM	#8
Bob s. Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: Westmont Illinois Posts: 32	I have the earlier versions of shimano decore XT rapid fire, and it kills my thumb when shifting a lot. My thumb gets so painful that I reach over and shift with my left hand frequently. I haven't heard of others with this problem though, so it might just be me. --Bob

30-05.-2003, 06:10 AM	#9
rudeboymcc Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 35	can anyone describe which one is rapid fire? i know what the grip shift ones are and i know of two more types, but don't know what they're called. i have the older type were it's just a lever on either side of the bars (on top), the one on the left is 1-3 (on mine) and the one on the right is 1-7. and you just select the numebr. the other ones i'm aware of is the one where there are two levers. one of them gets the gears up and the other drops them. so to get from gear 1 to seven you have to press it seven times. please help me!

04-06.-2003, 02:17 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by rudeboymcc

the other ones i'm aware of is the one where there are two levers. one of them gets the gears up and the other drops them. so to get from gear 1 to seven you have to press it seven times.

please help me!

These are rapid fire.

http://bike.shimano.com/mtb/DeoreXT...tnumber=SL-M750

09-06.-2003, 09:31 PM	#11
jggraham Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: chatswood area Posts: 17	Sorry bout posting twice i thought that my other one dissapeared __________________ ()0_0()

25-06.-2003, 03:17 PM	#12
MGSuarez Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: San Diego, CA. USA Posts: 52	there is a reason they call it Grip$hit!! One more vote for rapid fire! Really, it is just preferance.

27-06.-2003, 03:24 PM	#13
gregg Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 10	Shimano has it locked up! SRAM, oh ya, they make that ****ty fork line- Rockshot One has a company with 4 enginers to every 1 employee... Oh what to do? Shimano-

03-07.-2003, 02:20 PM	#14
paradox Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Slovenia Posts: 12	I`d say rapid fire. Tried both. Fits me.

21-07.-2003, 02:20 AM	#15
powderider87 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3	rapid fire

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