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If you want to improve upon the ergonomics of bar ends (which is hard imo) I'd go for stem mounted shifters or you can adapt an FD-band-on clamp and mount a sram trigger shifter.
MisterMikkel-
The bar end shifter is perfectly fine to be honest, nothing to improve upon, it's just that I am immensely restless and want to try new (=old) things - especially when they are cheap.
The FD-mounted shifter is something I wanted to try some 2 years ago, but I got stuck when it came to actually mounting the shifter - albeit I didn't have any SRAM stuff, only Shimano. I think I could somehow manage to bodge it up. But again, these downtube shifters would only cost a tenner...
It would be really nice if someone would make an affordable 31.8mm thumbie clamp. As much as I love Paul Components, 65 bucks for that kind of product is ridiculous, although I'm certain at one point I will place an order on them.
Lots of options, I will also have a set of Sora STIs to play with later on.
vpCogworks
Lowkey expected an answer like this haha. Front rack is probably not happening with this one, maybe for a future build, but right now it wouldn't see much use. I might buy a Wald for the Minerva tho.