Well, I bit the bullet and bought some ultegra 8 speed bar end shifters. Gonna run the rear indexed I think.
And heads up, I got them for a great price from chain reaction cycles, $70 Canadian, which is like what, $10 US? Haha just kidding, but a good deal. Threw some $30 all silver deore brake levers in the basket too and got free shipping from the UK. I've ordered from CRC before and they are good. I've never run bar ends so I am curious to see how I like them. I've had brifters, down tube, thumbies, trigger and grip shift so it's time. I was a little concerned with the shifters bumping my legs in turns but with the shorter then bosco Albas and the longish stem I have lots of room. I was also wondering if I could dismantle the sunraces and use the bar mount with the ultegras, as a cheap Paul thumbie?? For grips I'm either going to slice a channel in the cheapo Clem grips or go with the felt padding/ newbaum set up. Slicing the grips may be tricky as there are thick finger grooves along the bottom. I decided to switch out the brake levers too because they are all silver, will probably have better performance over the tektros and I don't like how the fastening bolt on the tektros is right on top, it's often digging in to my hand. Both pieces of kit come with cables and housing too so I'm pretty happy with the deal. Yay, new bike parts! I should be done spending now.... Oh but wheels and tires.....hmmm. Tim "maybe I should have bought the frame only Clem" Wood -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
