Coolwall - Thumbshifters

[john]

Before STI, rapidfire, x-press, bullet shifters, gripshit, dual release etc etc we all used thumbshifters. Quite a few still do. But are they cool or not?

Here's a few pics to get you going...

 

[kaiser]

If any component captured retro and is accepted across the board it would have to be thumbies, cool

 

[Tallpaul]

Anyone who doesn't think these are cool really has joined the wrong forum.

 

[JeRkY]

Cool, be it in old Deore/XT or Modern Ultegra/Pauls. Nothing shifts more naturally for me than thumbies.

I can t see there being many uncool votes for this one.

 

[velomaniac]

As cool as the big freeze we're having

Also the fact we retrobikers use them has to make them cool just by association

 

[cchris2lou]

yes , they are retro , yes they are ptractical but are they cool ?

not to me .

 

[Pickle]

Cool as.

Love the ones on my Stumpjumper, they are the definitive retro part to have!

 

[Augustus]

Cool. Can't be anything but can they.

 

[lewis1641]

sure this should be a question of how cool they are, not if they are cool or not.

 

[stephenwalker78]

XT thumb shifters rock my world.

Cool. Not much cooler than this, the only shifter for a true retro bike!