Originally Posted by
3alarmer
...I am conflicted. There is a part of me that feels indexed shifting was the beginning of the end for the classic criterium bike. Yet another part of me so much loves Shimano indexing that he has either maintained it or installed it on a number of his own bicycles. Sometimes, I am shamed by this massive bit of hypocrisy on my part. And I am not easily shamed.
I would agree that indexed shifting takes you outside the C&V era as we have commonly understood it. The tipping point for me is that the people I want to talk to and the threads I want to read are on the C&V forum.
Basically, there are two ways of looking at this: (a) Does the topic discussed in some thread meet the rules for posting in this forum? (b) Are the people who make up the community for this forum interested in some thread? Apart from Bike Forums policies on sales postings and general moderator peacekeeping, I think the second question is the more important one.