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love your LHT. i am in the process of collecting parts for a similar build. i want to get the disc trucker version though.

can i ask what shifters you are using with your triple crankset? i want to use a deore groupset but am stuck on what shifters will work as i want to use drop bars.

Shifters are Ultegra 8-speed bar end shifters. I wasn't sure about the idea of bar ends, but It's much easier to change gear than with downtube shifters, and safer when you've got weight on the front of the bike, and there more reliable than STI's - I'm running mine on friction because I haven't been bothered to sort the indexing out yet, but to be honest it works great as it is