Originally Posted by
ColonelSanders
You can get an adapter that allows you to run your downtube shifters from your stem.
Microshift brifters are inexpensive enough as well. And let me keep the rest of the original drivetrain...In the C&V retro roadies wih STI thread, I saw a great Nishiki with the same brifters... Nice idea. And keeps common controls between most of my bikes...