You certainly have permission to try, or does being in the Avant Garde trigger Anxiety responses?
It seems like where you grab the hood It will have your thumb and the body of the shift-lever,
In the same space. now on Mustache bars with the shift lever on the top, there may be some functionality..
a piece to hold both the lever and the housing stop would have to be fabricated.
a Long tima ago There were the square hole lever stop plates, that had a housing stop. on them..
<C> had some ..
Bar End shifters work well ,so on drop bars I use those.
Last edited by fietsbob; 11-01-13 at 12:01 PM.