Originally Posted by T-Mar

Let's face it guys, by nature all the road shifting systems, except brifters and bar ends, are "suicide shifters". They all make you take a hand off the handlebar to execute the shift. Isn't that the defacto definition of a suicide shifter? Shifting is a case where the ATB guys got the basics right, the first time. The shifters were always on the handlebars, very close to the brake levers.