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12-24-11 | 11:03 PM

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Doohickie

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Originally Posted by kc0yef

I use barcons aka barends I am tall and on a race geometry I cant afford to move my hands down to the down tube

I think there's the rub. I'm also tall, and as much as I like the idea of downtube shifters in theory, in practice they always seem kind of awkward. I had a bike with indexed DT shifters and it was alright once I got the early SIS working. Friction DT shifters are not that good though, at least for tall riders.

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