Re: Bar end shifters for touring bike ?

David Reuteler wrote:

> 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.

So?

Pedaling means pushing your foot to somewhere it would not otherwise be --
better get a scooter!

-- 
Benjamin Lewis

Mausoleum:  The final and funniest folly of the rich.
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