Originally Posted by ronp6
If that is your only issue a pair of barend shifters is your cheapest way out. If you have SIS now Rivendell has a converter set to use your existing shift levers and indexing. If you are shifting friction they are all the same.
Actually...a set of stem shifters is much cheaper than the Rivendell adapters, and works just as good and looks pretty clean. Alot of people have hangups with stem shifters because it was standard on alot of cheap bikes back in the 70's and 80's...but it works great. It's not different than downtube or barend shifting, just a different location for the shifters.
http://www.biketoolsetc.com/index.cg...m_id=SU-137A/6