Originally Posted by
mazdaspeed
No seriously, if you're in a situation where every last amount of peformance counts, how is 6 speed friction superior to perfectly indexed 7 speed? There are less gears and it takes longer to shift. I seriously don't understand. If you prefer the feel or whatever that's one thing, but it's just plain wrong to call indexing 'useless'. Maybe you were traumatized by campy indexing? I don't know.
no, seriously...they are chunky shifting, require constant tuning and don't fine tune well. I'd rather use friction.