The thing is. Those shifters of Shimano. Are all kinds of awesome.
They allow you to grip the drops solidly, With just the tip of the finger on the lever, when sprinting. Thus allowing you to use their superior shifting to actually win a sprint rather than drop you into the 11T when your puny Campag legs obviously can't handle it. With very little hand movement.
They allow you to stay on the tops when cresting a Climb, and shift up With Your little finger.
The thing is. Those silly looking thumb shifters of Campag. Are all kinds of awesome.
They allow you to grip the drops solidly, With just the tip of the thumb on the lever, when sprinting. Thus allowing you to dump half of the cassette With very little hand movement.
They allow you to stay on the tops when cresting a Climb, and shift up With Your little finger.
The thing is. SRAM shifters are all kinds of awesome.
They allow you to shift without the entire levers thrown to the other side of the world just to shift up, having only one button make it more intuitive to get on with, rather than having a complicated system that required more hand movement to shift up and down.
They allow you to stay on the tops when cresting a Climb, and shift up With Your little finger.
ftfy, now shut up will yer?