My comment on this? I think that sram should pay through the nose for infringing on shimano's trigger design. You basically said it yourself, paramountscapin, the reason that you didn't do sram before was becuase you didn't like the gripshift, and couldn't wait for triggers. So what did SRAM do? they made triggers.

Unfortunatly, triggers were shimanos idea! You cant just copy someone else's work and not get penalized. SRAM should have to buy the liscense to use the trigger technology.

not gonna happen. there is too much money to be made from retro-grouches and shimano haters in the road bike market for them to take a risk and move into the MTB arena.