I have Shimano bar end shifters (friction) on my A Homer Hilsen that work fantastically, but I've never liked placement as bar ends, because of me knocking them out of gear with my knee, hand, ooops bike just leaned on a wall ... So I asked my much loved and trusted bike shop, Keystone Bikes, for options and received this response: "...The only drawback is that the part is pricy. The Paul Thumbie <https://www.paulcomp.com/shop/components/drivetrain/shifting/shimanothumbies/> is the tool for the job, but $127. The Velo Orange Equivalent <https://velo-orange.com/products/vo-thumb-shifter-mounts-22-2-23-8>is cheaper but unavailable. Installation would be recabling the both shifters and setting the thumb mounts up."
I'm not against paying the $$, but before I do, I wanted to get some opinions on this mount, setup, placement, suggestions, things I don't know to ask about, "gotchas." I know Paul components are high quality and I'm at a point in my life that I want to do things right and do it just once. Thanks for the input. Roberta -- 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/85857767-02f6-4cea-afe0-c9dd9378dcb2n%40googlegroups.com.
