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@HorseAdventure
Honestly there's no difference. The shifters were cheap friction shifters on bikes weighing 45 lbs. Any half-decent rider on this forum pedals their bike more than not, and it turns out that pedaling while shifting is a pretty easy skill to learn, so much so that most riders don't think about it.