Back in 1983-1985, thumb shifters were right on top of the handlebar. The very first Shimano Indexed thumbshifters (6-speed SIS), were out in front by a bit. Just about everybody at that time thought that was better. I sure thought it was better. I do not recall ever wishing somebody moved the shifter back to being on top of the bars. Offset somewhat always made more sense to me. Now I admit that I haven't bothered to re-ask that question in the last decade or so, but now that I do re-ask the question, I can't think of anything that would be achieved by switching back to on top of the bar. Looking at my hand and where my thumb is, I can't think of anything good that would come out of making the change backwards (physically and temporally). That's what I'm thinking, Garth. What are you thinking? :)
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 3:37:57 AM UTC-7, Garth wrote: > > For Grant, I do wonder why the position of the new shifter is not like the > original, as in directly over the bar instead of well forward of it ? I > was so happy to see the shape of the shifter being like he original that I > overloked the mount puts the actual shifter well forward of the bar I, just > like the Pauls thumb shifter mounts and alike. I missing something as to > why the shifter needs to be extended and not on top of the clamp ? Help > me understand this , as for the life of me when I see this design being > presented and continued(pauls, vo,ird) I gotta wonder, "what on earth are > they thinking ?" !!!! -- 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.
