• I'm just finding it hard to justify spending ~£70 on bar end shifters when the bike itself cost me half that.

    You can get 7/8/9/10 speed bar ends for £5-30 really cheap on eBay. Are you sticking on 6-speed or whatever or going up to more gears? Guess it's screw on free-wheel is it?

    You could go for friction shift too

    edit: sweet bike obviously. I think it looked pretty awesome black/black/black but crap spray paint isn't going to last long. Silver/silver/silver will look great too I'm sure

  • something kind nice and artisanal about bar ends on friction.

    @powleo what about down tube shifters?

    I'm considering a similar revamp of my old specialized hard rock, thanks to friendly suggestions from fellow forum-dwellers I found some nice sweepy humpert bars available on ebay. The humpert lady towns in particular caught my attention.

  • something kind nice and artisanal about bar ends on friction

    It's PITA, they'll get scratched every time you lean it against a wall and they won't fit unless you're running special bars or steel ones. Use the thumbies, thumbies are great.

  • If the bike had downtube bosses instead of cable guides then I would have jumped on downtube shifters along time ago! Can't really bare the site of a downtube clamp.

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