{"id":1209,"date":"2017-09-12T13:24:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2018-03-10T18:53:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T23:53:33","slug":"upgrading-to-index-shifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/12\/upgrading-to-index-shifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to index shifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a major update to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheldonbrown.com\/upgrade-gears.html\">our page on upgrading older bicycles to index shifting<\/a>. This can be done at a lower cost than you may expect, because there is usually no need to replace the rear wheel! Shifter choices, parts compatibility issues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1211\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1211\" src=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/dual-lever20170822_112630-600x360.jpg\" alt=\"Shimano RapidFire shifter\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/dual-lever20170822_112630-600x360.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/dual-lever20170822_112630-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/dual-lever20170822_112630.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shimano RapidFire shifter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a major update to our page on upgrading older bicycles to index shifting. This can be done at a lower cost than you may expect, because there is usually no need to replace the rear wheel! Shifter choices, parts compatibility issues. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[504,492,361,936,19,20,136,5,49,507,805,939,937,938,508,15,59,40,41,43,42,52,10,506,28,505],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-10-speed","tag-11-speed","tag-5-speed","tag-6-speed","tag-7-speed","tag-8-speed","tag-9-speed","tag-bicycle","tag-bowden-cable","tag-brifter","tag-campagnolo","tag-doubletap","tag-ergo","tag-ergopower","tag-mcvey","tag-repair","tag-shelbroco","tag-sheldon","tag-sheldon-brown","tag-sheldonbrown","tag-sheldonbrown-com","tag-shifter","tag-shimano","tag-sis","tag-sram","tag-sti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}