Really appreciate all of the thoughtful replies here thus far. I think I
need to try a few things out. First I need to figure out if raising the
height and reducing the reach is going to work out as I'm hoping (and won't
just get balance further out of whack). I'm going to do that with a
For my commuter bike I'm very, very happy with Albastache bars with reverse
levers and the (single) shifter a shortened Silver with a rubber cap on the
end, mounted on a VO thumbie mount. I have some stoker knobs mounted on the
curves where people usually mount their road brake levers, but