Originally Posted by
kergin
I should add: after using campy shifters (QS) versus Shimano STI, it's painfully obvious why anyone (but racers, especially) would choose campy. You really need the ability to jump multiple cogs at a time, going both up and down, to adjust for terrain. With that in mind, SS and fixed cross or XC riders are a bunch of hard-ass mother****ers.
you can't downshift shift while you're in the drops, which makes sprint finnishes kind of difficult for some guys
i don't think indexing on downshifting is all that important, personally, especially with how fast the shifting is on both shimano and sram, it's kind of hard to get ahead of the shifting
of coarse i wouldn't say no to having record on a bike, but they definitely all have their pros and cons, the thumb position is a con i think