> You can't go doing too many things that will raise the price. I myself > don't like downtube shifters anymore, but I remember once having no > problem mounting one of those clamp-on things to hold them on an old > Trek that didn't have the braze-ons.
Well there is a point! For the Simplex afficianado, it is somewhat easier to find clamp on shifters with the sunburst design than braze- on. The collectors who have scarfed up the sunburst braze on shifters are very reluctant to give them up. And to be clear, I am not trying to be negative at all. I was just a tad surprised how marginal DT shifters have become. On May 2, 4:25 pm, James Warren <jimcwar...@earthlink.net> wrote: > You can't go doing too many things that will raise the price. I myself > don't like downtube shifters anymore, but I remember once having no > problem mounting one of those clamp-on things to hold them on an old > Trek that didn't have the braze-ons. So good decision if it kept the > cost down. > > On May 2, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Garth wrote: > > > > > Wow, I hadn't noticed that until now either about the missing DT > > shifter braze ons. I would have thought it would have them because you > > can always add the cable stops, but not vice versa. It was a design > > decision, assuming you'd be using bar ends,brifters or thumb shifters. > > They can't please everyone all the time. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
