Thanks Jim! I'll have to ask around to see if I can try some. Maybe I
should switch my Microshift 9-speed shifter to friction to test the waters
in the mean time.
Glen, I used to use rapid fire, but really like how compact and simple
thumb shifters are. When my 11-speed commuter ghost shifts,
Hi Aaron. I was just telling another list member privately that Paul
Thumbies + Shimano SL-BS77s are my idea of shifting nirvana. We have this
combo on five of our bikes. I use them strictly in friction mode and they
totally fulfilled my quest for awesome shifting. No need to explore
shifters
When I switched up my Atlantis to Billy Bars a few years ago I also ditched
the bar ends for a Shimano Sora rapid fire rear shifter and one of the
Sunrace front shifters set up for left inner mounting.
I really like that setup but if you don't have the real estate in front of
your grips, that
Usually when reversing shifters for inside mounting the left is kept as the
front shifter and the right as the rear. When you reverse index shifters in
this way you are forced to swap the front/rear shifting so that the left
shifts the rear. It's not wrong, just unconventional.
-Dave
On
Because of the cable routing, inside mounted thumbshifters must be friction
because they need to be reversed, left/right. That said, clicks are pretty
great, you should run the expensive Shimano/Paul stuff, or the less
expensive Microshift thumbies. And that said, of my three bikes, two are
