Re: Helping a tourist with STI problems

On Fri, 23 May 2025 07:50:00 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 5/22/2025 9:40 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 5/22/2025 5:01 PM, pH wrote:

On 2025-05-22, Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
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<snip good deed adventure>

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To me, it's justification for my preference for bar end
shifters for
touring. I prefer simple devices with only visible problems.

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Well, it just so happens that bar end shifters are God's
favourite.
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If they're good enough for Him they're good enough for
me.  I have one
SunTour and one Rivendell on my road bike at the moment.
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Friction shifting,, by the way...no indexing.

 
Agreed!
 
Well, one bike has them indexing; but I sometimes set it to
friction mode when the indexing gets unreliable.
 
 

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I have one index bike, a Raleigh Sports 3 speed. No friction
mode; shifts perfectly for the last 54 years.

As long as we're doing personal anecdotes, I have several thousand
miles on my trigger shifters with zero problems.

--
C'est bon
Soloman