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Subject: Bar end shifters on aerobars, road bike?
I have aero bars mounted on a road bike. I'm really noticing how it disturbs my efficiency and balance when I have to reach over to the handlebars to shift, and I'm seriously considering putting bar end shifters on my aero bars. (This is cheap; getting a real tri bike is not!)
I'm wondering if anybody here has any experience with this themselves, or seen where somebody else did it, or seen an article anywhere. I generally do my own mechanical work and am a little hesitant to ask my LBS for their opinion.
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2016-05-28 4:31 PM
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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.
2016-05-29 1:27 PM
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Subject: RE: Bar end shifters on aerobars, road bike?
Thanks for the reply!
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2016-05-31 6:27 AM
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Subject: RE: Bar end shifters on aerobars, road bike?
another option, although you mention the cost is way less than a bike and these systems are more expensive, is to go with Di2 or etap. this would allow shifters both in the drops and in the aerobars, and if you wanted to take the aerobars off and run it just as a road bike you can do that too. im in the same position as you, i use a road bike with clip ons and have to reach for the drops to shift. i think that im going to make the investment in a tri bike soon, but believe me, i thought about the Di2/etap approach real hard too because it really has the ability to turn one bike into a do-it-all machine.
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