“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles If you are a regular reader of this site or attended the Texas Custom Bicycle Show in October, you know I built a new bike for the show, a travel version of my La Salle [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Versa Road Shifter’
T-minus 10 days until the Texas Custom Bicycle Show
The Texas Custom Bicycle Show is just 10 days away, and I’ve been liternally burning the midnight oil to get the show bike down for my Violet Crown Cycles booth. For the show, I decided on building a travel randonneur bike with some special features. As the bike is designed to breakdown into a regular [...]
A Series of Tubes: Marcus’ Randonneur Bike, Details, Details, Details
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles To followup on my initial post in this series on frame building, I wanted to share some of the work and challenges that went into designing a randonneuring bike for Marcus, my co-editor. The frame [...]
Review: Versa 8 Speed Road Shifter for Shimano Internal Hub
My experience: I installed the Versa shifter/brake levers on my Ritchey Breakaway cyclocross bike and rode about 150 miles over a two week period. Function: 5/5 Style: 3/5 Build Quality: 5/5 Overall: 5/5 Price: $229 ($199 for a limited time directly from Dynamic Bicycles, 1-800-935-9553) Summary The Versa integrated road bar shifter/brake levers are a [...]
Coming Soon: A Review of the Versa Road Shifters for Shimano Internally Geared Hubs
In the last few months, I’ve written with great excitement about the introduction of the Versa Road Shifter, a STI style integrated brake/shifter for road drops with the pull ratios to be compatible with Shimano’s 8 speed Nexus and Alfine internal hubs. I’m a big fan of internal hubs for transportation bikes since they are [...]
STI Style Road Shifters for Shimano Internally Geared Hubs available this summer
Recently, we reported on the Dynamic Synergy, the first road bike equipped with STI style integrated brake/shifters for Shimano internally geared 8 speed Nexus and Alfine hubs. Bike Commuters wrote a positive review of a demo version of this bike they had for trial as did BikeHugger, and it seems like a product long overdue. [...]
Update on the STI shifter for internally geared hubs mystery: Versa VRS-8 Road Shifter
Bike Commuters let us know after our article earlier today that MicroShift is not the manufacturer of the mystery STI shifter/brake levers compatible with Shimano Alfine and Nexus internally geared hubs. While the casing my be done by MicroShift, Bike Commuters took a look at the innards and they are very different from MicroShifts ARSiS [...]
