jackbombay

I currently have one bike running a Sturmey S5 which originally had an AW in the back so I just swapped in the S5 intervals and I was good to go... once I added another shifter so I could use 1st and 5th, I added the 2nd shifter on the left side of the bars. It is not intuitive to me to shift the bike from the left side of the bars for whatever reason.

I had dreamed up cutting the band off the 2nd shifter and welding it into the band of the primary shifter, but under the bar, but I started tinkering with it and it wasn’t going to come together in anyway that looked like success...

The the bolt for my brake lever caught my eye, and the strap on the shifter is slotted...

So I bent the strap out straight, reamed it out just a bit bigger do the brake lever bolt would fit through, the bent the strap "back under the shifter" and the shifter is now virtually ideally located, it actually came out better than I hoped for :-)

I do have another bike I'll be building soon with a S5 in it that will be getting this same treatment!

BigChief 

Looks good. I really like these hubs. I have a SunTour power shifter mounted on the left side handle bar to operate the bell crank. I need to change the cable routing that I have now. Three cables on the top tube looks cluttered to me. I should have routed the bell crank cable along the down tube to a cable stop on the chain stay. It's on my list of things to do.

nlerner

I like your creativity, but that looks a bit busy for me. My approach for the left side is a friction down tube shift lever. I’m usually shifting the thumb shifter more often, so the Dow tube shifter is for those extreme under- and over-drive needs.

jackbombay

Yes! I was a bit on the fence about purchasing it actually, but now, man, I LOVE it!

Hmmm, I have not settled on cable routing yet myself, 3 cables on the top tube is a bit much, but I do like the symmetry of a cable running down each seat stay. Sometime after new year this bike will get a through tune and clean, I'll figure it out then!

Part of my hesitation of getting the S5 hub was that the bike would lose some of the simplicity of an AW equipped bike, but I like the hub so much I just decided to embrace the busy and go a bit Rube Goldberg with it.

Around town I never use 1st, and 5th only gets used on half my trips to town or so, but I'd probably use 1st and 5th more if they were easily accessible, so I'll see how this works out, I like that I didn't do any welding to make it happen, so it's easily reversible.

noglider 

I think this should work well.