I'm with you Glen. When DT shifters were it, I was enjoying mountain biking and my shifters right there on the bar, by the brake levers. I have longer legs than my torso would dictate to production frame and my 60 cm road bike always had me feeling a little unsteady; those shifters were so far down there and the old school 42/52 rings with not much range of the five cogs didn't really reward those shifts either. Brifters drew me back and facilitated longer trips not limited by the mental fatigue, until things broke. That was more maddening than the wobbliness of reaching to what felt like my ankles to get another gear.
Bar ends came to me via my Bridgestone RB-1 and an XO-2. That RB paved the way to my Rambouillet and its bar ends, switched into friction mode ever since. Aesthetes abhor the housing paths if a bar bag is intended. Me, I'll figure it out. I can't imagine greater happiness of the form and function. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 1:38:43 AM UTC-5, Glen wrote: > > As a tall guy I never liked shifters on the down tube, way too far to > reach. It took brifters to introduce me to bar ends, now i'm sold > > > On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 10:09:21 PM UTC-7, lungimsam wrote: >> >> If I love friction bar end shifting, will I find friction DT shifting >> just as easy and enjoyable? >> >> Never done it before, and seems like the reach may make it more difficult >> and looks like there's a big potential for knees banging into forearms >> while pedalling and reaching down to shift at same time. >> >> What's your experience been with DT shifting? > > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
