+1 on Ultegra bar ends on Paul's Thumbies. I was coming off a MTB to my Ram and the oem DT shifters were uncomfortably distant for me to shift properly. I set up an indexed 3x9 with thumbies which I am very happy with. I did get a 48cm noodle to mitigate crowding of all that hardware on top of the bars. Having the output cables of both shifters pointed towards each other so close to the stem necessitates having them mounted at odd angles to each other to allow them to cross effectively. Only a deal if perfect symmetry is important to you. I need to move my hands to shift from my normal ride position on the curves to downshift but can rotate my thumb across the bar to move to a higher gear. I also like the idea of mounting the thumbies under the bar as someone else suggested. Maybe a winter project.
BC On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 12:54:13 PM UTC-7, Kieran J wrote: > > I run a Shimano Ultegra BE shifter on a Paul's Thumbie, on my 1x9spd > riser-bar commuter. It's my preferred system, and works equally well > indexed or in friction. Flawless shifting. > > My Ram is running the remaining BE pods, fitted with the spacers from Riv > and Dura-Ace DT shifters mounted. Also great! > > KJ > > > On Monday, September 23, 2013 7:33:05 AM UTC-4, Michael Hechmer wrote: > >> Since retiring I have gradually moved my single bikes back from bar ends >> to down shifters. Now that I don't commute and rarely ride into heavy town >> traffic I find I prefer the speed and clean looks of DT shifters. But the >> tandem is still bar end because my stoker doesn't like me letting go of the >> handle bars, and we're never or rarely needing to shift rapidly. But I am >> considering switching these to thumbies. Has anyone made this transition, >> especially with drop bars? With friction? How did it go? Do you like it >> better or worse? >> >> My wife has been enjoying the albatross bars on her half of the tandem >> and so we have been talking about also switching her single and if I do >> that maybe I'll install thumbies there too. Do people use this combination >> and how have they likes it? >> >> Michael >> >> >> -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
