I love the idea of downtube shifters; simplicity, good looks, easy packing, disassembly, and repair, etc. However, as soon as I'm off road, bar-end shifters become much nicer and down tube is a giant pain.
Right now, I have downtube shifters on my Ram. However, I'm still getting my bars and stem length set up. Once I have a setup that I like, I might move my shifters. I think the plan is to just use DTs until they drive me crazy... then I'll switch ;) Ben On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 2:26:43 PM UTC-8 Joe Bernard wrote: > DT for front is great because it's an occasional reach for one or two big > shifts but I've never gotten along well with it for the rear, I run my bars > too high for the reach to work for me. It's probably fine if your bars are > at or below saddle level. > > Joe Bernard > > On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 11:01:06 AM UTC-8 atreya...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> I am debating bar end vs down tube shifters for the upcoming homer build. >> I like the simplicity and aesthetics of down tube but concerned how >> “inconvenient “ they could be given longish geometry of rivs. For non >> racing and just riding for pleasure usecases does it matter .I am also >> considering going downtube for FD and bar end for RD. If over time I find >> downtube comfortable enough switch both to downtube . Would love to hear >> groups thoughts and experience. > > -- 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/ee6561f0-ea5e-4cb7-9fbb-edd08ac37ea1n%40googlegroups.com.
