I switch between geared, single speed, and fixed often on this bike that currently has drop bars. Wheeltop's mount doesn't clamshell and they don't make blip buttons; so I shortened a MTB bar end extender and mounted the EDS OX trigger shifter on the bar end. Probably the only 9 speed wireless bar end setup around.
by Sakonut
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Absolute no from me. Now throw that on the stem or top tub and i’m in.
This seems…less than ideal.
What bars are those?
Holding out for wireless downtube.
What in the Sam Hill drop bars are these
this is possibly the furthest away from any hand positions one would be using on those bars so the practicality of the placement is questionable but I guess if you love your old school bar-end shifters…
It’s not true Xbiking until at least something is inconveniencing you.
Haters don’t realize this is true x-biking. Makes no sense and seems quite inconvenient, but unique…. God dammit I’m in.
Haha yeas
Just run friction shifters at this point
I fucking love a solution to a problem because one didn’t previously exist. Well done man.
Does that not hit your knee?
Positioning would be a little too precarious for me but hey if you can run it without constantly banging it into things or having it get hung up, then I’d say it’s a good solution.
I’m sold
Eew
I’ve always been a little bit tempted to experiment with attaching some wireless blips to a pair of gloves and seeing if any orientation is comfortable. Why limit hand positions at all when the shifting is wireless?
Wireless shifting is great, but people really aren’t thinking outside the box with it.
I’d break that off on my leg in a day, and then I’d be ex-biking until I could afford to fix it.
I think it needs a cup holder.
I hate it
Please post a full bike pic
I was just thinking about wireless downtube shifters today. This is close enough.
I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it.
edit: wait wtf are those bars? I’m squarely in the hate it camp now.
This is such a bizarre use case and solution, well done.
r/Justfuckmyshitup /
now THIS is x^2 biking
This is peak.
Riser dropbars with wireless barcons is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen