No, I am not downgrading an 8 speed. I am upgrading a ten speed. I mean a _real_ ten speed, not those things from last year they call '10 speed.' I've been running 7 Speed freewheels on my Raleigh. I want to play with brifters, see what they are like, and I also want to try a closely-spaced freewheel in place of the 13-32 I have.