Originally Posted by
MRT2
A road bike with grip shifters? The only road bike I can think of that came installed with grip shifters is a Wal Mart bike, in which case it might not make sense to upgrade to brifters as the cost will be orders of magnitude higher than the value of the bike.
Yep. Has to be a Denali.
If you're pretty lucky you could find some 1999-ish 3x7 Shimano RSX shifters for $40 or so. Or you could get new Microshift 3x7 for $80
https://www.universalcycles.com/shop...0&category=162
Unfortunately I think you'd have to switch to a road triple front derailleur to get the front shifting right.
Maybe $25 for a road triple derailleur. You need to figure out the diameter of the seattube before shopping for those. going bigger than the seattube can be OK if you get a good shim.