I have had this old 80's (actually a 1980 from what a friend of mine told me) AMF labled 10 speed stick shifter laying around in one of my parts boxes for about a year and the other day I was gonna start taking it apart and making a custom stick shifter for something else. While I was diggin into it, I figured out how to mount it to the bike, which was the biggest reason I have done nothing with it. Got it along with alot of other classic parts and a few bikes for trade of my 2011 Cranbrook. Isn't it cool?!
Pre SIS and indexed shifting, I am suprised what some wd40, brushs/rags and a quick rebuild and clean up can do for this 32year old shifter. Works like a tiptronic/tipmatic shifter, where the shifter stays in one position and you "bump" the shifter up for upshifts and bump shifter down for downshifts.
The 10speed single stick shift shifter works with Shimano 5speed SIS freewheel and I was supsised how well it shifter. I had to pull the caseing off it when I rebuilt it and cleaned up the gear number indicator lable and reglue it to the wheel it was on. The way it shifts supposedly is sequetial 1st thru 10th, but every other shift changes the front chainring back and forth as it shifts the rear derailleur every other shift (ie. 1st= small front+big rear, 2nd=big front+big rear, 3rd= small front and 2nd biggest rear, 4th= big front+2nd biggest rear, 5th= small front+3rd biggest rear, 6th= big front+3rd biggest rear and so on in this sequence).
I have been into bikes for 20 years and i've never seen anything like it. The guy I got it from said it went to some "Bruce Jenner" road bike.
Now it is the suicide stick shifter for my 1986 Murray Monterey cruiser. I mean don't we all just have an old Murray laying around that we aren't really doing anything with?
Pre SIS and indexed shifting, I am suprised what some wd40, brushs/rags and a quick rebuild and clean up can do for this 32year old shifter. Works like a tiptronic/tipmatic shifter, where the shifter stays in one position and you "bump" the shifter up for upshifts and bump shifter down for downshifts.
The 10speed single stick shift shifter works with Shimano 5speed SIS freewheel and I was supsised how well it shifter. I had to pull the caseing off it when I rebuilt it and cleaned up the gear number indicator lable and reglue it to the wheel it was on. The way it shifts supposedly is sequetial 1st thru 10th, but every other shift changes the front chainring back and forth as it shifts the rear derailleur every other shift (ie. 1st= small front+big rear, 2nd=big front+big rear, 3rd= small front and 2nd biggest rear, 4th= big front+2nd biggest rear, 5th= small front+3rd biggest rear, 6th= big front+3rd biggest rear and so on in this sequence).
I have been into bikes for 20 years and i've never seen anything like it. The guy I got it from said it went to some "Bruce Jenner" road bike.
Now it is the suicide stick shifter for my 1986 Murray Monterey cruiser. I mean don't we all just have an old Murray laying around that we aren't really doing anything with?
