I'll throw my hat in the ring as a DT shifter proponent. I have bikes with both, and have never really felt any added security from the "keeps your hands on the bars" aspect of bar end shifters. I find that I have a greater tendency to nudge my bats slightly when shifing - especially with upshifts. I'm neither a young nor small person (pushing 50 with 60 cm frames), and have never found the reach to my down tube shifters to be a big deal. Frankly, DT's just feel more "natural" to me.
All that having been said, I do prefer bar end shifters with M-bars...but only slightly. For the record, my first road bike came with Campy Brifters. I came to both down tube and bar end shifters as an adult in the modern (8 speed and after) age. Hugh Flynn Newburyport, MA On Saturday, December 20, 2014, Johan Larsson <seven.nau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 6:09:21 AM UTC+1, lungimsam wrote: >> >> If I love friction bar end shifting, will I find friction DT shifting >> just as easy and enjoyable? >> >> Never done it before, and seems like the reach may make it more difficult >> and looks like there's a big potential for knees banging into forearms >> while pedalling and reaching down to shift at same time. >> >> What's your experience been with DT shifting? > > > > I like both bar-end and DT shifters and have bikes with both systems. No > problems switching between bikes with different types. I'm 6'2" and have > bikes between 63-66 cm, and there's no issues reaching down to DT shifters > on these bikes, not with drop bars at least. With bikes I'm sitting upright > on, I only use MTB shifters or stem-mounted shifters. > > What I appreciate with DT shifters is their simplicity. They work for all > road use. Bar-end shifters are better when you don't want to let go off the > handlebar, if you ride slippery gravel roads or off-road - trails, single > track etc. > > Johan Larsson, > Sweden > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Hugh Flynn Newburyport, MA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
