Subject: RE: Bar end shifters on aerobars, road bike? I put bar end shifters on aerobars with a giant defy road bike I had. Well, I had my lbs do it. He didn't judge it, but some may. I did go with clip on bars which had internal cable routing instead of running the cables outside bars that were never meant for bar end shifters.
The result was easy shifting when in the aerobars of course. The drawback was when riding in groups (on the drop bars because who wants to ride in packs with people on their aerobars and away from their brakes? ) and not having shifting at my fingers when needing it then. So it was still a limitation for me. If you ride solo most of the time, there wouldn't be any issue. Just the cost of recabling, bar end shifters, and time. |