Originally Posted by PaulRivers

I think integrating the shifters into the brakes has been absolutely fantastic, I hated to take my hands off the brakes and reach down to shift. But I find indexed shifting to be debateable - you do end up spending a lot of effort and sometimes money endlessly trying to get the indexed shifting working just right. Whereas with non-index shifting it's a little more work to shift right but you an always get it spot on.
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