Originally Posted by
DownTownie
This shifter is on my new 2010 Electra Townie 21D. I love it's simplicity, but get frustrated that the shifters function opposite of each other (ie. on the right shifter the upper lever is to upshift and the lower lever is to downshift - but on the left shifter the upper lever is to downshift and the lower lever is to upshift). I would have preferred the left to match the right.
Jim
I think of it as a big circle passing through both shifters. Rotating the cicle clockwise (thumb on left, index on right).shifts up. Rotating the circle counter-clockwise (thumb on right, index on left) shifts down. Thinking like this, I have never had aproblem.