Originally Posted by
TurbineBlade
I've read the above ^^ about stem shifters written in similar ways and don't get it....I think everyone has read the same websites and just regurgitates the information without actually trying it for themselves.
Maybe I'm reading the OP's questions wrong, but it sure sounds like he wants to mount the shifters on the TOP TUBE not the stem (see below quoted from the first post). My bits are often quite near the top tube; the stem, not so much. I generally see nothing wrong with stem shifters other than having to reach to an inconvenient spot to shift (relative to STIs or trigger shifters).
Originally Posted by jjciiijs
I am thinking about taking off my bar end shifters and moving to "tube" shifters.
Take a set of down tube shifters and place them on the top tube.