De-indexing LH Campag Lever?

[55by11]

I have Mirage 10-speed ergo levers, and I find the indexing on the left one quite annoying and unhelpful. I like to be able to trim my front mech in case of chain rub noise, but the crude indexing has other ideas and will usually send me onto another chainring instead.

Is there a safe and relatively easy way to disable the indexing? I haven't ever taken apart one of these levers, but I am pretty good at things like that.

 

[Bustedknuckle]

I have Mirage 10-speed ergo levers, and I find the indexing on the left one quite annoying and unhelpful. I like to be able to trim my front mech in case of chain rub noise, but the crude indexing has other ideas and will usually send me onto another chainring instead.

Is there a safe and relatively easy way to disable the indexing? I haven't ever taken apart one of these levers, but I am pretty good at things like that.

No, remove the guts, get a friction downtube shifter for the Left, Front der.

 

[winkybiker]

Think about how you use the combination of front and rear gears. I don't often trim the front at all. For me, chain rub is just the sign that I am getting seriously cross-chained and should shift at the front.

Of course you should also check how your front derailleur is adjusted. "Hard Left" should give you all but a couple of your smallest rear sprockets (which you shouldn't use with the small ring anyway) without rub, and "Hard Right" should you give you all but a couple of your largest rear sprockets (which you shouldn't use with the big ring) without rub.

Just my view. I like to keep my chainline fairly stratight, even if it means more frequent front shifts. I see others who use their gears differently, never shifting to the small ring until they have run out of gears at the back, then back to the big ring at the first opportunity. I guess it makes them feel fast .

 

[avanti]

Think about how you use the combination of front and rear gears. I don't often trim the front at all. For me, chain rub is just the sign that I am getting seriously cross-chained and should shift at the front.

Of course you should also check how your front derailleur is adjusted. "Hard Left" should give you all but a couple of your smallest rear sprockets (which you shouldn't use with the small ring anyway) without rub, and "Hard Right" should you give you all but a couple of your largest rear sprockets (which you shouldn't use with the big ring) without rub.

Just my view. I like to keep my chainline fairly stratight, even if it means more frequent front shifts. I see others who use their gears differently, never shifting to the small ring until they have run out of gears at the back, then back to the big ring at the first opportunity. I guess it makes them feel fast .

I agree with you. Severe cross-chaining bends the chain and causes wear (and I've seen chains fail a couple of times with a club rider using big ring/big sprocket combo on hills)