I have both friction and index. I've personally found friction to be great for more gradually changing terrain that gives you some time to fine tune the paddle placement before really cranking down on the pedals without fully losing your momentum. However, when I am dealing with highly varied terrain that changes very quickly (i.e. singletrack and poorly maintained forest service roads), I've found that I am not good enough with friction to get the shifts just right without the rear derailleur not being in the right position and the chain consequently jumping around when I apply the torque (or break, which only happened once!). As such, for my 2x9 speed Clem I've moved to indexing in the rear as I've been on the trails more and more. However, If I were to mostly stay on the road, I'd keep with friction both front and rear.
Hopefully my anecdote helps, and good luck with the build! Collin A On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 8:49:44 AM UTC-7, Friend wrote: > > I am getting ready to build up an AHH frame. I am planning on putting > noodle bars on it and having it be 3/9 with bar-end shifters. I'm > wondering whether people here prefer friction or indexed shifters, and why. > Would love to hear any thoughts. > -- 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.
