Sometimes the original is the best...
Farewell, integrated shifters. I will kind of miss you, but not really.
I have gone exclusively to microshift bar end shifters on all of my bikes. I just find them superior. I am not a racer and ride for recreation, fun, health, commuting, and only put on a few thousand miles in a year in hilly terrain. I love only having to use brakes at the hoods, no more merging of shifting and braking, no more using the big lever instead of the small lever. As I'm looking at flowers and clouds and daydreaming and forget to shift out of the 13t cog at the start of the climb, I can slam the lever up and move through 7 or 8 speeds in a crank or to of the pedals. No more click, click, click, click, click-ing with the STI lever as I lose momentum and my recent images of flowers and clouds trying to get to the easy gear.
Starting the downhill? Slam the lever down to the 11t cog and I am good to go in a couple cranks of the pedals.
Shifting is price, they always work, even in sub-zero degrees F, and they cost a small fraction of STI levers. I also run 1x, so a left hand STI lever is a huge waste of money. Just my two cents....
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