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I must say I am quite pleased with this setup. I was lucky to get an cheap x9 trigger sans clamp so it made it an easy choice. But they can cost roughly the same as proper bar end shifters plus the hassle of making it.
BUT you could make a cheaper solution. I have just finished my gf's bike. She wanted dropbars, but I wanted to keep expenses down. She lives in London and I thought expensive 10sp STIs would be too much for local thieves to handle and she doesn't like cheaper Shimano STI with cables going everywhere.
I used and old seat post collar (filled the stop/ledge off) and an slx 9sp trigger which I cut the indicator off. A little filing later and now the clamp tightens by tightening the bolt into the trigger. I did go up a thread size in the trigger to make it match the bolt from the seat collar.
Only downside to using the seat collar is that you do not have an hinge and have to remove bar tape and levers to remove it. But in this configuration it is not an issue.
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@andy_k just pm'd you
@jontea thanks, but don't think I want downtube shifters.
The other option I'd be interested in is if anyone has a set of SRAM x9 shifters, or other mtb shifters that a removable clamp so I can steal @Hulsroy 's nice idea of using a front mech clamp to fit mtb shifters to OS drops...