My only experience switching shifters is in the context of switching bars (roughly rotating through a set of four setups).
Moustache bars make it easier to ride on the "drops". I love the bar- ends there. It's at least as fast for shifting as the thumbies on my Albatross and Bullmoose bars. My Noodles have thumbies near the stem on the top. I find them available but not as easy to operate as any of my other set ups. The angle of attack feels wrong. But I also haven't spent as much time with my Noodles, so I've always been in transition to a certain extent. Also, I have the Nitto F15/BarSack arrangement on my Noodles, which does clutter up the area a little. No real problems. Just not as easy or open as my other bars. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean On Jun 23, 8:20 am, MichaelH <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am considering a switch to thumbies on our tandem. I am finding the > BEs too slow on the tandem for the kind of rolling hills of Vt, which > require a lot of fast, double shifts to attack hills that often swing > from minus to plus 10%. The long cables, long rear derailleur cage, > and the need to move each separately from the shifter back to the bar > before I can reach for the other shifter causes too much delay and I > end up with too much pressure to drop the chain, or I shift early and > we end up spinning wildly, or even dropping the chain all together. > > Does anyone have any experience going from one to the other on a road > bike, that they can share. I suppose the other option is to ride more > on the drops, where I can reach the shifters faster. > > Michael > Westford, Vt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
