What replaces MRX 7sp grip shift? piece of crap

My 2nd new MRX 7sp grip shift has self destructed in less than a year, losing its click stops and
becoming a frictionless friction shifter that you have to hold on the gear.

Very annoying - I was happy to let one slip by as maybe a fluke. It seems to be a pattern. They
don't honor the guarantee either. (MRX: if you want to honor your guarantee send me mail and I'll
let everybody know, if you do.)

What can I replace it with directly?
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Ron Hardin [email protected]

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24,000 miles? Maybe you just plain exceeded the expected working life of a low-end component like
the MRX shifters. How many cassettes, pairs of tires, and chains have you gone through in this time?
If I were riding the same bike 27 miles a day, 5 days a week, for three years (that makes 24k
mioles), buying an occasional shifter set wouldn't bother me - especially if the set were as cheap
as the MRXs are.

Chris

"Ron Hardin" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> A Muzi wrote:
> > And how did it fail? Did the outer body ( the locks-to-the-handlebar
part)
> > crack? Or did the intgernal spring mount break off? Just curious.
>
> The two new ones had the internal spring break loose, and one failed in
less
> than a month. Both have lots of grease still inside them.
>
> The one that came with the bike lasted I guess 3 years, which would be 24k
miles,
> and had a different construction. It suffered general disintegration,
both
> outer body and spring. It seemed to work on a different principle, a
radius
> change as you turned it, rather than pulling cable from the end. It was
hard to
> tell exactly because it had disintegrated, but it looked clever, something
of
> a breakthrough in cable-pulling, like the Sun Tour derailleur was to
derailleur
> construction in the 70s.
>
> Both R and L shifters that were original failed about the same time, & I
took it
> as being from the plastic plasticizing in the sun, since they were not
used equally.
>
> SRAM has an email address and they respond, but won't replace the busted
things.
> For $10 I'm not going to send them back to Nashbar! SRAM gets out of
their guarantee
> by way of the hassle factor, and they know it.
> --
> Ron Hardin [email protected]
>
> On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

 

Chris wrote:
>
> 24,000 miles? Maybe you just plain exceeded the expected working life of a low-end component like
> the MRX shifters. How many cassettes, pairs of tires, and chains have you gone through in this
> time? If I were riding the same bike 27 miles a day, 5 days a week, for three years (that makes
> 24k mioles), buying an occasional shifter set wouldn't bother me - especially if the set were as
> cheap as the MRXs are.

The first one was fine. I was complaining about what I replaced it with: two quick failures. If they
went back to the 1998 model I would be happy.
--
Ron Hardin [email protected]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.