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Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Mon Jul 8 14:59:48 2024 Zen Cycle  wrote:
>> > On Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:52:28 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Shifting a TT bar end is nothing like shifting a downtube shifter.
>> 
>> I find it to pretty much identical, except that my hands don't have to 
>> leave the bars. The left shifts the chainring, the right shifts the 
>> cogset,  away/down for smaller and back/towards for larger
>> 
>> >> They are the same mechanism with a mdifferent mount but you are
>> >> looking forward the whole time and not looking down to the levers
>> >> where you might throw the left lever meaning to throw the right.
>> 
>> Oh dear gawd....
>> 
>> I have never met anyone who ever confused the shifters, even back in my 
>> very early days of racing with cat 4s when half of us had chainring 
>> 'tattoos' on our right calf.
>> 
>> So, No, tom. No one with even the slightest competence confuses the 
>> right and left shifter...maybe you did, but that's you, the same idiot 
>> who advises 'you have to pause pedaling to shift'. As noted elsethread: 
>> You are beyond the shadow of a doubt the _last_ person in this forum I 
>> would ever even entertain taking advice from on _any_ issue.
>> 
>> 
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> Thanks for showing us that you have never actually ridden downtube
> shifters. It gets very tiresome to read your comments about things you
> don't know about. Right handers shiftr BOTH downtube shifters with the
> same hand as do lefties. Everyone that has EVER used downtube shifters
> knows that. You are always looking down to make sure you're shifting
> the correct lever!

How would you get the wrong lever?  I move my right hand from the right
to the left until it hits the downtube, then down just a bit until I
feel the right lever.  It's the one on the right.  The left shifter is,
um, on the left of the downtube.


> I'm waiting for your lies to fly. That you did too ride downtube
> shifters in races in a pack.

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