Steve, I use either mode and am equally happy. If the drivetrain is made up of older, fussy parts, it's friction. If its got the more modern stuff (that means 8 or 9 speed shimano for me), I index. Unlike some people on the interwebs, I find adjusting a modern drivetrain for indexing is no problem. Interestingly, I set up my wife's 2 bikes with bar ends and indexing and she's been qvelling about it ever since. All she wants to know about her bikes is: do they have upright bars, bar end shifters, and indexing? Well, she doesn't even ask about the indexing anymore. She just assumes it's there or there will be trouble for me. ;)
But for me, manual, indexed, whatever. It's truly all good and frankly, I like the variety. As usual, YMMV and the OP should, decide based on personal preference. Perry -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
