Inspired by Grants post about Liesl's gorgeous new bike, I swapped around my paul thumbies on a pair of boscos. Right paul to the left side, left paul to right side. Instead of the actual thumbshifter being on the outside where there can be overlap between where the shifter is and where your palm wants to be, the shifter moves to the inside of the bar where it's out of the way. There's no downside at all unless you like indexed shifting (which I guess you could still do if you ran your rear derailleur shifting from the left hand), and the upside is *huge*. The thumbies no longer get in the way of certain grips, you can actually hook into them pretty nicely with a thumb, and you get so much more grippable bar area than with the thumb shifters on the outside.
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