Recent content by Vindiu

Yes, the answer to your question is between the index numbers 8 and 10 at the right shifter. AP-MD ES01 is a SunTour index unit. SunTour had a bit of a weird spacing. SunTour cogs are always 2 mm thick, whereas Shimano 8 s are 1,8 mm. Suntour had 2,80 mm 3 lower (bigger cogs) spacers and then 4...

I might be some months late to this one... the left X-Press needs to be balanced by the FD spring or it will tend to go to high gear. It's not really an indexed lever either but a "Power Control" one where the detentes are just to give a feel of the whereabouts of each of the chainrings, but...

Oh the Record OR... That would be my next project but prices are just too steep.

I paid much less for mine :) Yes, It's Ergotecs I'm after. Thanks for the link anyway, another resource I didn't know about.

Looking forward to the pics. I'm now myself in search of a pair of Ergotecs, nothing to be found on eBay or anywhere else. If someone wants to sell or knows about someone, please ping me here. In the meantime, I found a set of MicroDrive branded 8s Twist Shifters. Same indexing mechanism...

This is for an ongoing project. Trying to leave the bicycle as close to the original spec as possible.

Resurfacing this post.. I used to race these from 1994 through 1996 (XC races) . I was running SunTour since 1991, changed to XCPro MD / speeds in the summer of 1992 and then upgraded to 8 speeds in late 1993. I learned to ride with RapidFire and X-Press so I never really appreciated thumbies...