[_*sTiTcHeS*_]

can you take the internal gears and what not out of the right shifter and place it in the left?

i want to run a hammerschmidt shifter on the right with my rear brake and not my front.

 

[zebrahum]

Well, you could get a thumb shifter and run it in friction mode. Not real bling but it'll get the job done. I don't know if there are any right hand front shifters available, I've never seen one.

 

[jonKranked]

I think the way the ratcheting mechanism is oriented will prevent this from happening.

 

[hmcleay]

Put your rear brake on the left, where it is supposed to be!

 

[w00dy]

I have a hard enough time just getting shifters back together. If you try it please take pics and post about it. That's an interesting idea.

You could just hook it up to a right shifter. It may take 2 or 3 clicks to pull the proper amount of cable, but it will work.

 

[_*sTiTcHeS*_]

i'm pretty particular so i want to make this happen otherwise i'll probably not even bother whit the hammerschimdt. i have a bad left thumb aswell.

is it possible though? anyone done this? anyone work at sram and know?

 

[4xBoy]

How about using a Poploc?

 

[_*sTiTcHeS*_]

Ummm... you are pretty much my god. Thankyou so much.

I did call sram one day and asked them about it but the guy on the phone warned me and told me it was not a good idea, not safe, and absolutely not possible. So I told him that if it was possible I'd call him back, just to say I told you so. But really, I just want to have a hammerschmidt shifter that doesn't require my left thumb.

 

[w00dy]

I did call sram one day and asked them about it but the guy on the phone warned me and told me it was not a good idea, not safe, and absolutely not possible.

The tech was just watching his back legally. He was also being a pansy. That would work with a little fiddling.

I have a sram x-9 shifter that I took apart (left). The indexing is all done with a flat disc that looks like it might be interchangeable with the right side. This could work.

 

[ultraNoob]

With the assumption that the shifter levers and bodies are mirror images of each other and that the indexing rings are flippable, then yes I think it could be done. If memory serves, the hammerschmidt uses a special X9 shifter pod. I don't think the indexing ring is flippable.... then again, I've never taken apart one of those special shifter pods yet.