Originally Posted by
rugerben
I know nothing of your particular situation or desires, but there is one thing you might want to consider.
You may end up spending more on the components to "commutify" your bike than you would spend on a cheap used bike on CL.
There are TONS of cheap (>$100) older bikes on CL that would allow you to get to school/work very comfortably and save you the time of altering your road bike, as well as allow you to not leave a nice road bike on the rack waiting to get stolen.
This is what I would do, but not saying you ought to do it if that's not your cup of tea. I figured I'd suggest it in case you hadn't thought of it yet.
Thank you for the recommendation, but I'm pretty set on what I want to do. I don't have room where I live for a second bike, and for the amount of money I could get for my bars and shifters, I could easily pay for all the new components. In fact, I'm fairly certain I would come out ahead. However, this isn't really a thread to try and sway me one way or the other. I'm just looking for some help on the conversion.