Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?

cyclintom wrote:

Roger, there wasn't any problem actually shifting but grabbing the
lever in the heat of a bunch sprint was b\oth inconvenient and
dangerous. We're not talking about Frank being able to ride without
hands long nough to take a jacket off. Most riders had good enough
balance to do that.
 We're talking about half a dozen riders or more trying to cross the
finish line first and trying to cut off others so they are weaving
all over the road.

Remember also the variant of bar-end shifters.
In my mind, the only people who really needed them was the sprinters. I'm not a sprinter, and so I was never interested.
Smith