I am guessing that the "plastic" lever that Bill mentioned above was made through a rapid prototyping method which yields similar results to a 3D print, but is a different process. You know I love my silver shifters and friction is fine, but I am also OK with indexing, in fact the old Deore XT thumb shifters were about as perfect as could be. When I am touring or just cruising about town if it takes a second to coax the chain into gear no biggie, but out on the trail many times you need to shift quickly & it really needs to be pretty much brainless. That being the case, something that can easily be done. Why not? My main issue with indexing comes from the move away from simple thumb shifters to "rapid fire" trigger shifters. In '93 I got some Mavic wishbone shifters, they had little interchangable disks in them that corresponded to different index systems. Just use the disc, that supported your system, my bike still has those shifters & they still work great! Not sure why Dia Comp (or Sun Race) could not come up with a ratchet shifter that actually indexes using a similar concept!?
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