Rally Design Quick Shift

[Guest John Walton]

has anyone fitted arally design quick shift kit?

If so how did you go about stripping the original gear lever?

[Guest Ian & Carole]

Hi John

 

Type 9 ??

[Bob Tucker]

Hi John,

I fitted one recently, which also came without instructions, & I couldnt make head or tail of it.

Luckily someone on here posted a copy for me.

 

I'll dig it out & take a photo of my lever too.....ooh er..& pm in the next few days.

IIRC I just removed the rubber bit & ground the bit inside back to a round shape.

 

But dont cut anything yet, the grey matter has been getting bleached lately

Cheers, Bob

[Guest scottie686]

has anyone fitted arally design quick shift kit?

If so how did you go about stripping the original gear lever?

 

Hi

 

I bought a quickshift from Rally Design and had issues selecting some gears on my type 9. It was almost like I had to either really chuck it into 1st or go into second 1st for it to then slide smoothly into first. Also, the lever felt very loose ad if the ball at the base wasn't being gripped very tightly!! There was a lot of play in the lever when in gear.

 

In the end I sent it back and I paid s little extra and bought one from Quaiffe, and it is superb! All smooth changes and a good quality product! The one from RD may have been one from a dodgy batch but didn't want to take the chance, and glad I didn't after using the Quaiffe product.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Regards,

 

Scott

[tendoshingan]

Hi you can always make one yourself as per this link from before:

link to quickshift

[Guest Robin Allison]

Had a Kit quickshift for some time, not easy to put together. last year I got a rose jointed on off ebay £35 worth it too.

[Guest John Walton]

thanks for the replies chaps, yes Ian it is for a type 9.

Looks like I may not be onto a winner here.

 

I have two complete RD quick shift conversion kits now, both of which sound rubbish, will have to come up with plan 'B'

[Bob Tucker]

I had a DIY (Dave Andrews) q-shift for quite a while which worked fine, but it didnt seal the opening in the gearbox top, so I bought the RD version while I was there getting new dials.

After I got the instructions it went together pretty easily, & works a treat now.

Hardly rubbish....unless I decide to buy your spare one...

Bob

[megadodo]

I bought one from Burtons for around £15 (QS03K was the part number) and I'm sure that was Rally Design? It went in fine and I can easily select all the gears, the throw is short and smooth. The hardest bit was cutting off the old outer part of the gear lever. the original gear Knob wont screw on to the new handle but will do once i make the hole a bit larger.

[speedtripledan]

my burton quick shift lever was a pain to fit mainly because you have to destroy the old one but now fitted it selects all gears perfectly with no play what so ever make sure the plastic bit is still on the bit that the fork slots into or there will be a lot of play.

[Guest John Walton]

keep the info comming chaps.

 

This is being fitted to to a Westfield.

For those that dont know, the gear box is fitted much further forward tan on a robin hood and a gear remote or turret remote as RD call them has to be used.

 

Due to the tight machining of the RD gear remote, the plastic sadle has to be removed from the selector at the rear of the gear box.

Thus, the RD quick shift kit will fit on the gear box remote.

Photo below should give you the idea.

[chris n]

I also had the kit, found it to be fine for a bit, but then started to find gears hard to get on the way up & down the box so have swapped it out for the rose jointed one, loads better no problems now

[Guest micha_1]

any of these conversion kits are rubbish....the only "real" quickshift, which you can directly fit is a comlete quickshift lever from e.g. RD , Burton or Quaife.

 

the levers cost definately more than a conversion kit...but a conversion kit which ends in the bin was finally expensive, too.

[Bob Tucker]

Hi John,

hope the instructions & a piccy are attached as a WORD document...

Cheers, Bob

Rally_Design_Quick_shift_instructions.doc