Cool indeed...but what about friction bar-ends too? Now that's cool for a 'muter bike. I want to get some badly for my work bike.

I just got a bike (2 bikes actually) in the last 6 months that are my first experience with brifters. I really do like them - but I totally agree about the chainrub thing (I can only acess 1/2 my rear cassette from each ring before I start to get rubbing (I need to tweak something I guess). I did ride a campy brifter bike recently and really appriciated the ability to tweak the FD from the brifter - as opposed to my ultegra brifters.