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Old 03-17-16 | 08:18 PM
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lotekmod
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From: Columbus OH

Bikes: '73 Flandria 3 speed, '84 Lotus Legend Compe, '87 Merckx Corsa Extra, '94 Kona Kilauea

My bikes are all very different from each other, with only two that are somewhat interchangeable. The thing that was driving me nuts was at one point I think I had bikes with every shifting mechanism made in the last 30 years. I had:

-MTB with thumb shifters
- MTB with grip shift
-MTB with trigger shifters
- Three speed with lever shifter
- Road bike with downtube shifters
- Road bike with STI brifters
- Touring bike with bar end shifters

I would always mis-shift on rides at critical times- the times when you should be going on instinct I would inevitably hit a lever in the wrong direction. Except DT shifters of course, because they're so intuitively obvious
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