Tomorrow will be n+1 day; I will have my fifth bike with drop-bars and my fifth brake/shifter combo:

Kona Dew Drop has Shimano 2203, with thumb triggers:


Felt Z85 has Shimano 105, dare I say the 'standard' configuration:


Mondonico has mid-90s Campagnolo configuration - kinda like the 2203, but not the same:


Pugsley (drop bar fatbike) has the Gevenalle shifter - a totally unique beast:


n+1 will be the Breezer Radar Pro with SRAM DoubleTap:


Every time I grab a bike, I have to remember how to shift all over again!

i like my bikes to feel the same, so they all get changed to shimano if they aren't being built up from scratch

I never thought I would have the mental fortitude to survive it, but I'm successfully managing to switch back and forth between Shimano 6800 and Rival 1 on a day-to-day basis.

Quite a selection! My bikes also vary a lot. At least mine all feel different - helps out a bit.

In order of preference (most fav to least fav):
Bar End shifters on the long distance bike
Brifters (STI) on the road bike
Trigger shifters on the hybrid
No shifters on the single speed
Grip shifters on the old mountain bike

They are all shimano, but I can't remember what level anything is.

It's like speaking different dialects of Spanish...close, but not as close as American/British/Australian/South Aftrican.

5 bikes, 4 shifter options. Two vintage 6 speed barcon friction, one Suntour, one old Campy. I Sora 8 speed brifter, thumb click up and lever click down. One Shimano 105 10 speed, STI lever click up/down . One Shimano Ultegra Di2 10 speed electronic shift, push buttons up/down. Not a fan of down tube shifters, though I've had two of them back in the day.

Congrats on your n+1.

My thoughts 15 years ago, I was going to get one brand and stick with it. I got campy, problem is for the touring bike, campy doesn't make touring drive train. so now I have a blend of campy on some bikes and shimano on the others. My folder came with a grip shift and a couple of my straight bar bikes have thumb shifters and rapid fire shifters. I have only mis-shifted a couple of times when riding the bike with Ultegra shifters for a month then using a bike with campy on it.

Hmm. Five bikes with ten-speed Campagnolo brifters.

Five with Suntour Barcons and six or seven gears in the rear.

One with a Campagnolo ten-speed barcon on the right and a Suntour Barcons on the left. :-) (I am particularly proud of this one.)

An old Schwinn with stem shifters.

A Motobecane that has only one Suntour Barcon for the rear cluster.

No Shimano equipment at all, thankfully.

I solved that with Miche cassettes and Specialites TA Zephyr cranks. The Zephyr was/is as rare as hen's teeth but Sugino makes a similar crank. The granny on both goes down to 22.

^^^ this

Reminds me of a favorite story when I was traveling Tennessee with my boss (British expat): we stopped at a cafe for lunch and I couldn't stop laughing as he and the server could not understand each other - I understood both of them perfectly.

I've made miss-shifts as I roll out of the neighborhood, but typically I've got it locked-in after a couple miles. Heck, on the test ride with the SRAM Double Tap, I had NO IDEA what I was using (I wasn't shopping for a new bike, and hadn't read up on SRAM)... and I still had it figured out inside of a mile.

Next, I need to get a bike with eTAP, that will really mess with my head!

I like the SRAM double tap, in fact, more than my 105. Mine is just the lowly Apex but the shifts and levers feel so crisp and fancy.

I've always liked the looks of those Gevenalles.

I'm five-for-five too. Stem mounted friction, downtube and bar end indexed, trigger on trekking bars, and the current build is getting microshift brifters. The next project will probably be a friction thumb option, if it doesn't go single speed.

Yeah. I have STI on my road bike and bar ends on my touring bike. The first time I get on my road bike after a long tour I usually reach for the non-existent bar end shifters.

With electronic shifting one could dispense with levers or buttons and just go with some sort of neural actuator. Just think "up shift" and it's done.

You need Microshift.

Shimano trigger shift 9sp on MTB
Gevenalle shift 11sp on gravel
Shimano Ultegra 9sp STI on older steel road
Shimano 9sp Barcon on touring bike
Shimano 7sp downtube on older steel road
Microshift 7sp STI(their version) on older steel road

huh- 6 different shifting styles on 6 bikes. Thats interesting when I see it typed out on the screen- Funny.

With only one bike I don't have that problem. But when I resumed bicycling years ago I was an avid motorcyclist and switched brake cables so the right hand worked the front brake on both to avoid any confusion. I still keep it that way years later as I like it better, and haven't tried to shift the bicycle like a motorcycle yet.

Great idea!

My bikes are all Shimano, so no need to get used to it...but I do have one with DT shifter, and that's a whole different level of getting used to.

If you want a good deal, you can get the Arsis 10 carbon group for $160:


And this is the review, lighter than Dura Ace:

Review: Microshift Arsis Carbon 10spd groupset | road.cc