Originally Posted by chaadster

Zombie topic. This was answered 30 years ago, and there remains no objective measure by which friction shifting is better. Oh, but they tried— they whined and they cried— to find some excuse to thumb progress in the eye; too heavy! Too complicated! Too unreliable! All that garbage went straight to rubbish like their thumbies and DT levers; you should have heard the complaints about the move to STI! Guys actually tried to claim physical harm was imminent from “being in the same position all the time.” It was crazy talk, and still is. Friction shift for novelty, or to relive you glory days, but don’t even try to cop that friction is better in any way, because it is not.

Now, was it someone here who was asking about the benefits of using a vintage ice box instead of a refrigerator?