yeah, the price of the take offs was a bit painful (especially as I also got some new shift levers - well NOS 6 speed - when I decided to go from stem shifting). Actually, I still haven't re-routed the cable yet (put the take offs and new levers on when I got new brakes and put new brake cables/housing in and re-wrapped my bars), so I have these non-used levers out by my hands and am still reaching back to stem shift and my bike looks like a huge mess (maybe that's why no one tries to steal it ). Something about having a new baby limiting my free time and wanting to spend it riding the bike rather than fixing it up. Hopefully, I can get some time this weekend to actually get that done as I think it'll make my riding a lot nicer (I also have to adjust my rear derailleur as I'm having some problems with really bad shifts).