So, I'm riding the "back-up bike" for a few weeks, and I'm not understanding these Brifters. The main problem seems to be me getting lost and not remembering what rings I'm on. With the bar-end shifters, you can see* where you're at. I don't know the bike well enough to know by feel.

It's a triple ring, and a lot of the gears feel the same to me, so I don't know how people tell where they're at...