I meant to say steering tube mounted shifters for the Schwinns. Laing
On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 10:58:16 AM UTC-4 lconley wrote: > I used the IRD stem mount for years on my Sam Hillborne. My 1st 3 > derailleur bikes were all Schwinns with headtube mounted shifters > (Suburban, Varsity and Super Sport in the early 70s) and they were what I > learned to shift on, so they seem natural to me. I rode downtube shifters > for many years on what were basically road racing frames (Gitane, > Paramount, Masi). I have tried bar ends on many occasions over the years, > but have never really liked them On my custom, that has drop bars, I had > shifter mounts installed on the headtube as sort of a compromise position > between stem and downtube - kind of a long reach down to the downtube with > high mounted bars, even drop bars. I am going to try thumb shifters near > the stem on the Crust Towel Rack bars on my Bombadil. > I like the adjustable positions afforded by the IRD stem shifters, I > tended to put the stop one notch forward of vertical. > > Laing > > On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 9:52:46 AM UTC-4 greenteadrinkers wrote: > >> Wondering anyone has tried out the said quill mount? How was the >> experience shifting? Did you stick with the quill mount? >> >> I'm running bar-ends on a the Bluelug Bullmoose Bosco, and have been >> giving the quill mount some thought as an alternate solution for shift >> lever location. I love having the shift paddles right behind my hands, but, >> with the Bosco, bar the paddles come back far enough that from time to >> time, they hit my leg, not a deal breaker by any means.. >> >> Thanks! >> Scott >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0e379d17-6792-44c9-9f97-4a108c49c827n%40googlegroups.com.
