Re: Bar end shifters for touring bike ?

Peter Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Although your hand is off the brake,
: since most of your shifting is done with the right hand, you're still on the
: brake with the much more important left hand.

not for me or anyone else with right-front.  i'd rather have my hand on the
hoods when i shift.  any way you look at shifting with bar-ends means moving
your hand somewhere it would not otherwise be.  even when i'm riding in the
drops i'm forward of where the shifters are and i have to move backwards.

is it mostly a reliability or cost thing?  i can't see there being a 
functional reason to use bar-ends over ergo in particuliar.
-- 
david reuteler
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