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Originally Posted by -holiday76
you guys will probably think i'm crazy (or stupid) but I was thinking about running a drop bar modern modern club racer type setup on a vintage frame with a alfine IGH shifted by one of these:



unfortunately the shifters alone are in the 2-$300 range so I'm not exactly sure if this will be happening are not.
I have felt that temptation as well, and have resisted. If anything, I'll go for the J-Tek bar end shifter. At present I am still running my Nexus-8 with its stock grip shifter, which I have mounted on the straight part at the top of a drop bar. To do this, I had to cut the bar in two (on the right side, near the center ferrule) and fit an extension inside it, which is held in place with set screws. I used a narrow bar that I didn't have any other use for, so in the process turned a 38 cm bar into a 46cm bar (that's an improvement!) but the set screws are an imperfect solution. They have worked their way loose once before, and riding it yesterday I noticed the bar was squeaking. That's never a good sign. I will tighten them again.
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