Originally Posted by
L134
Are there brifters that are friction? I, for one, regretted "upgrading" to brifters and went back to bar end friction.
Yes there are. Gevenalle (gevenalle.com) offers "brifters" that are basically brake levers fitted with a machined bracket that mounts downtube shift levers or the shift lever from barends.
You can buy them equipped with 9,10 or 11-speed indexed rear shifting levers or friction rear shift levers or with no levers and use ones you already own. In all cases front shifting is friction.