Give your friend friction shifters first for goodness sake. Don't sell them short in their abilities, people don't need or want to be treated as incapable. You don't have to buy expensive thumbshifters, Sunrace SLM10 and Falcon are ratcheting ones for $10-15 and include cables. The ratcheting mechanism is plastic, but for casual use they work just fine. I have bot. They feel quite nice in the hand and can be used on both road and mtb bars.
I liken this to learning to drive. I learned with a manual transmission in high school drivers ed via a simulator trailer we had. When I actually got into a car with a manual tranny it was easy as pie. Should I have been "spared" the chance I'd be incapable of driving a car and shifting a manual transmission at the same time ? Let them shift, let them mis-take a few. With manual shifting these are easily corrected. When indexed shifting goes wonky and you have no idea how shifting works in the first place, you're helpless as you have idea why the thingy on the handlebar doesn't work or even what it does. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7d41acfe-4049-4e6f-be12-7e6e8f609cccn%40googlegroups.com.
