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> Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I would say that is your non-racing opinion and as such is
>> different to the circumstances we were talking about. They would only be
>> as dangerous as you allow them to be in heavy traffic.

They weren't inherently dangerous, and were only dangerous in the hands 
of incompetent twits like you.

>> I don't remember
>> ANY MTB's with downtube shifters. But I can't remember what my MB-2 had
>> on it. Looking it up it had friction thumb shifters.

Because taking your hand off the bar on an MTB in technical terrain 
_was_ inherently dangerous. We aren't talking about MTBs dumbass, we're 
talking about road biking/racing.