I never used bar end shifters before my Sam, and I absolutely love them. Started out indexing, but I'm now friction-only. IME, there's a night-and-day difference between the convenience of bar ends vs. DT shifters--not even in the same ballpark. I've never used brifters, but they aren't nearly as clean as bar ends to these biased eyes.
Bob On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 1:38:10 AM UTC-4, Lungimsam wrote: > > If you are going to be bar end friction shifting I recommend 7- or 8- > speed cassettes. Less autoshifting. > > I run 7-speed cassettes on both my Rivendells. > > I went from brifters to bar ends and I loved bar ends at first shift. For > some reason I find them more fun to use than brifters. > Perhaps it is also the freedom of not having to be tied into a gruppo > drivetrain as bar end friction shifting will shift across any > cogsets/chainrings. > > Also, you dont have to set the cable tension up "just so" like you do with > brifting setups. > > Just feels free-er to me. More fun. > > -- 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.
