Don Whitehead

It seems like if you mount them the proper way, you are forced to shift from
the brake hoods, which is not very conducive to drop bars on mt bikes, or at
least flared drop bars like WTB used to make.

I've tried them mounted upside down (shifter points downward) and it wasn't
that great of an experience.

Another slightly rare alternative are Suntour Command shifters, which are
somewhat useable from above and below the brake lever, but you get into the
issues of Suntour freewheel/cassette spacing vs Shimano.

What I would like would be to get some of the old WTB shifter mounts, which
work really well, but I haven't seen any for a long time.

Don

On Feb 19, 2008 3:28 PM, Brian Johnson wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Anyone here use Kelly Take-Offs for their shifting?
>
> If you don't know what I'm talking about:
> http://www.kellybike.com/2nd_xtra_takeoff.html
>
> Intriguing concept. I'm interested in moving the bar-end shifters on my
> MTB (I have a drop bar on my mountain bike). I've looked at Paul's
> "Thumbies" but those don't really do it for me.
>
> Thanks for reading!
> Brian
>
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