Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
This depends on what kind of old bike you have... many people upgrade their old bicycles with newer components and if you want to go the simplest route, down tube mounted STI shifters are rather nice.
Sixty Fiver, explain please? I thought STI was, by definition, the integrated brake/shifters system. Do you mean downtube mounted indexed shifters? Or is there some system I haven't heard of?