Originally Posted by
thirdgenbird
ive only ever seen these shifters in picture and on video (they predate me by a number of years) but i have heard mixed reviews. was it just that they were really hard to set up?
The main problem was that the shifters had to mount to a stud on the top of the downtube, not conventional shifter bosses on the sides of the tube, because the two levers were connected. So not many bikes were equipped for them from the get-go.
I had a bike with the frame mount, and wanted to install indexed Shimano downtube levers, so I had to have a special mount ordered for that. Talk about rare. A clamp-on shifter mount would've been another option, I guess.