"Moe" (my 1995 Trek 830 Mountain Track) trekking bars

Lots of comfy hand positions to choose from. Still miss my drop bars, though. May swap out for drop bars sooner rather than later. Plus, I really miss the friction shifting for the front derailluer I had with my Ultegra bar end shifters on my old Surly.

 

I know it's not as modern as indexing, but indexed front shifting is not fun to set up. In fact, my front derailleur skips over the middle chainring when downshifting off the big chainring. Despite hours trying to tweak this and following countless sets of instructions, tips, and suggestions online on how to eliminate this problem, I did not get it taken care. I think it might be an issue with the shifter rather than the derailleur. In any case, this would not be an issue at all with the friction front shifting of good bar end shifters.

 

I just gave up and make an extra shift back up to the middle chainring in those instances when I am trying to downshift to the middle chainring from the big chainring. Not too big a deal, though I may still have a bike shop take a look at and see if they can adjust it properly.

Done