After riding with STI brifters for many years, I thought that friction would suck, but it is smooth and I don't miss my STI shifters a bit.
You can get Shimano levers with indexed and friction modes and you can decide if you like friction or not. When indexed works, it is great, and there is no reason to use friction, but if it doesn't work, then it sucks and I hate to mess with quarter turns of the cable to shift properly etc. and would rather avoid the hassle and just use friction. Toshi On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:16 AM DarinM <darinmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like both. I love friction on 7/8 speed drivetrains that I use with a > triple for touring. I like indexed for my 2x9 speed drivetrains. I ride my > bikes off pavement a lot and don’t like having to trim and search for the > sweet spot too much which I found was necessary (for me) when friction > shifting 9 speed on dirt or gravel. > > Darin > > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
