Originally Posted by Ben Cousins
Not only can you shift from the drops, you can also shift up from the tops (or at least I can, by extending my finger).
I would be all over Shimano if they didn't have such horrible shifting units. It's not the shifting mechanism, is the size of the hoods and the cable routing.
I seriously wonder what drugs the Shimano engineers were taking when they designed their hoods. They're horrible and just plain butt-ugly.