Hey everyone,
I got this old used road bike for quite cheap to build up as a city bike. As in, I can lock it somewhere without fear of it getting stolen or damaged etc. After riding quite a bit with it and enjoying it, I certainly appreciate the vintage flair of the bottomtube shifters, however, they are also not the most convenient being used to modern brake lever shifters. I therefore considered a conversion to thumb shifters.
Do you guys have any recommendations for 7 speed thumb friction shifters? I generally often see Microshift recommended, but they don‘t offer 7 speed versions as far as I have seen. The only obtainable and cheaply priced thumb shifter I found is the Shimano Tourney A050 ones. Any thoughts about this in particular or the whole idea of the conversion in general? Thanks in advance!
by Reydriar_
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You will run into issues getting a thumb shifter on those bars as drop bars have a larger diameter than for flat bars, your best best would likely be to get some bar end shifters from a used bike shop or co-op and some cable stops that will bolt onto where your downtube shifters are now. If you can do this yourself or are willing to learn this maybe a good option to learn some wrenching skills