Subject: Re: Flat Bar Shifters Posted by: steve on August 08, 2006 at 22:01:28: In Reply to: Flat Bar Shifters posted by James on August 08, 2006 at 10:46:44:

Message: >Would a 8speed alivio shimano shifter brake combo designed for flat bars work and mesh with an old 8speed campy record drivetrain. I want to convert an old Merckx into a commuter with flat bars to get it back out on the road and keep all the old stuff just in case I ever want to switch it back over. Currently Merckx has downtube 8speed campy. I thought I could just pop in a flat bar and shifters and switch downtube shifters for barrel adjusters on the braze ons. Thanks for any help. Unfortunatly, the spacing between gears is different for shimano 8spd than it is for campy 8spd, there for the indexing of the shifters will not work well with the campy cassette.