WTB/ISO Paul Thumbie adapter for Silver shifters

[C Lin]

Apparently Paul made these for a while to mount silvers on thumbies for shimano bar cons.

-Carlos in San Diego 

[Brian Forsee]

Ohhhh. Interesting. I was unaware of this. I recently ordered a Paul shimano thumb mount assuming I could put a silver on it only to find out i cannot. If Carlos finds their fill and someone's got another I would be interested.

Brian

[Jay Lonner]

I have a few sets of these in use (so, not for sale). They work well, but haven’t been available for several years now. I was on the hunt for another set some time ago and struck out. I even called Paul himself to see if he still had the tooling to accommodate a special order, and he very politely passed. The Silver 2 shifters from Riv are probably your best bet, although IRD also sells power ratchet thumb shifters.

Jay Lonner

Bellingham, WA

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On Nov 14, 2022, at 12:24 PM, Brian Forsee <bmfo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ohhhh. Interesting. I was unaware of this. I recently ordered a Paul shimano thumb mount assuming I could put a silver on it only to find out i cannot. If Carlos finds their fill and someone's got another I would be interested.

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[lconley]

These are what you are looking for. They are for installation of Silver 1s on Paul Thumbies, not shimano bar end pods.

Laing

Delray Beach FL

[J.C. Bryant]

With as many Thumbies as there are out there, I sure wish these were available. I know there are other options that are made specifically for the Silver/Dia-Compe friction models we all know and love but it'd be nice to use something I already have. I can't help but wonder if they ceased production due to low demand or if it was a request from the manufacturers who are trying to sell their own thumb shifter mounts.

With that said, if Paul won't make them anymore, even for a special order, I wonder if anyone else out there could put something together that works. I've got a couple sets of Thumbies on the shelf that I could certainly use if I could get them to work with my Silver shifters. Looking at Laing's picture, certainly there's a bodge out there that ought to work just as well as the adapters.

-J.C.

[Nick A.]

I've had good luck with the Velo Orange thumbie adapters.

[Wally Estrella]

I've got bike buddy who owns a machine shop that specializes in hardware.  I"ve sent him the image for a SWAG on cost and minimum quantity. 

[lconley]

Only the adapter plate is special, the rest is just hardware.  This cries out for someone with a 3D scanner and 3D printer. But this is Paul's design, so it would not be right to sell them without his permission.

Might not even need a metal 3D printer, plastic would probably do.

Lost wax casting would also probably do fine.

The underside.

Laing

[Wally Estrella]

Yeah, I get that on the regular off the shelf hardware.  It was for the adapter.

[Patch T]

https://bikelist.com/listings/paul-thumbies-silver-shimano-set-left-and-right-new-in-package--1902923565