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Never rode with that lot again
I think that group were absurdly rude to you - actually I'm a bit surprised you would consider riding with them even once, since they were obviously so incompetent that they couldn't control their bikes without keeping both hands firmly on the bars!
Actually downtube levers are a bit modern for me:
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clubman
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So a toptube shifter wouldn't have been as bonkers as I first thought.
Hmmm, I've painted the frame and bought a friction thumbie now so it'll have to wait for now.
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Its pretty standard, I'm a mountainbiker that has a road bike, love road biking + touring and just messing about. Theres a lot more 'roadies' who's bikes just don't work and should have never left the house in the morning, every group ride I end up fixing stuff/bodging things for them.
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BrickMan
Remember my first ride with a new cycle club when i moved area, turned up on a classic bike running gen 1 dura ace (6 speed, non index) in very good shape (in a mechanic), several of the 40 to 55 yo guys commented sort of jokingly that i couldn't ride with them on my "grandpa" bike because taking my hands off the bars would be risky and I could cause a crash.
I laughed as they seemed to be joking, just guys being guys, but then one piped up and changed his tone to "no, your actually not riding with us, dt shifters are dangerous and should be banned from the roads"
An even older guy then "allowed" me back onto the ride so long as i stayed on the tail of the bunch.
The entire 3 hours I rode with them was a clatter of clunking and grinding gears from their very badly setup modern bikes.
Offered several times to adjust them. Two of the bikes had totally burst outer cabling.
Never rode with that lot again.
As a mechanic, good friction shifters are hard to beat and pretty industucble