Originally Posted by
shipwreck
Just a question, if you have owned that many bikes over X amount of years, and changed shifters to boot, how long was the longest that you rode with one set of shifters?
I agree that brifters are fine, even from my firm "retrogrouch" bar end school of thought, but I just wondered this.
My 31 bikes span about that number of years. Some have been changed extensively...and expensively...as the technology has changed and some have been relative unchanged. I used the Tiagra shifters from my T800 from 2003 to 2005 and then used them on a commuter bike from another 5 years. Both bike saw extensive use with the commuter bike being used 4 to 5 times per week for 5 years before I upgraded to a set of Ultegra shifters. I didn't need to change them but only wanted to.