Originally Posted by
frogman
Thanks for the great source of information !
You got me to thinking, my old Trek has an 8 speed Campy cassette that i have removed the smallest cog and now it it is a 7 speed. I use downtube friction shifters and it shifts dandy. From what I understand maybe I could use Shimano index shifters. I like the downtube
shifter setup so I would need to find Shimano downtube index shifters, probably not available for 7 or 8 speeds, but an interesting idea.
you could always stay friction, Shimano had downtube indexing shifters for 7 speed, I had some 600/ultegra/tricolor not sure about 8 speed.
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