Gotta agree with you. I have both friction- and index-shifting bikes, including one bike with Campagnolo Ergo levers that I haven’t been on in a couple of years. I enjoy them both, but when you’re getting tired at the end of a long ride it is such a convenience not to have to hunt around for a lower gear when the road tilts up.
I’ve had the experience far too many times of not shifting far enough into a lower gear and then being plunged back to a higher gear when the chain seeks a lower place. That never happens with index shifting. Yes, even down-tube indexed levers can fail in ways that friction levers can’t. Small parts with close tolerances can do that. However, in 30+ years of indexed shifting I have never had a downtube shifter fail on me. I *have* had to repair/refurbish Ergo levers (not that hard, really), but even then it was to correct poor shifting, not because they failed. --Eric N > On Jan 2, 2020, at 1:55 PM, masmojo <masm...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Well, I love Grant and he's right a lot of the time about a lot of things, > but it's my personal belief is index shifting ain't one of them. > I really don't think index shifting was intended for "lazy" people. I never > really appreciated index shifting until I started riding mountain bikes; and > honestly in that context especially, it's indispensable. -- 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/B2E5A6BD-448E-464B-9DE9-B8D9A28B3F81%40me.com.
