7sp thumbies are a thing. This is half my spare stash. Not pictures are my Suntours, DX, and other XTs in other locales.



After this, there were no more thumbies from Shimano. The good thing is that they shift 8. 7sp parts also play well with 9sp and XT was top tier until XTR came out in 93 with 8 sp. Even then, M732 held its own.