Thread: Q about Silver bar-end pods with Campy levers
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Old 11-05-15, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by due ruote
No, the work around is to use my Suntour shifters.

If I decide later that I must have Campy, I'll just buy the pods and a set of braze-on shifters from Ebay. They seem to be plentiful and not too spendy.
Originally Posted by JohnDThompson
I suspect you'll be happy with the SunTour bar-ends. Campagnolo's friction shifters were always (IMHO) one of their more mediocre products. I've swapped them out for Simplex retrofriction levers on my bikes.
The Suntour's ratcheting action is really nice- but, IMO, not as nice as the Sachs/Huret mid-80s ratcheting shifters and those aren't as nice as the Simpex Retrofrictions.

IMO and all that.
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