Stem Shifters

[Scott G.]

Threadless stem with Campy friction shifters on a 10s drive train.

Sounds like a future Riv project to me.

http://primateframes.wordpress.com/

[William]

I like the idea of stem shifters. Ahearne frame feature them
frequently. Those pictured look pretty goofy with that housing
routing. Perhaps he should have used a longer clamp section instead
of that big stack of washers, and would have had room to put the cable
housing stops down there for a little bit more normal look. Then
again, if you are going out of your way to get stem shifters, normal
might not be the look you are after.

[Ray Shine]

I like stem shifters. I installed an older set on my Bleriot.  They are readily available on Ebay, many  as NOS, Suntour, Shimano.

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[Beth H]

On Oct 1, 5:34 am, "Scott G." <sco...@primax.com> wrote:
> Threadless stem with Campy friction shifters on a 10s drive train.

> http://primateframes.wordpress.com/

Beautiful!

Until I realized that I'm having issues with drops (and have stopped
riding them for the time being), I used stem shifters almost
exclusively. The Primate's shifter placement is unusual in that the
shifters are mounted on the extension, rather than on the vertical
part of the stem; and yes, the cable routing is a little odd; but it
looks great. --Beth

[RoadieRyan]

Dang that is cool - I like it never seen shifters mounted on the stem
extension before. Actually I think the routing looks pretty "sano"

[William]

I gues the routing is OK, but it looks forced. This is more what I
was thinking:

http://www.ahearnecycles.com/pages/giusepperandonneur.html

[Justin August]

Couldn't you get this easily by having some shifter bosses brazed onto
a tall steel spacer?

[Andrew]

I agree I really wish they made steel spacers with shifter bosses.