These are virtual but ethically produced knock-offs of Shimano bar-end shifter pods, and allow you to mount most downtube shifters as bar-end shifters. If you already have Silver DT shifters, or SunTour Sprints, you'll need these to convert them to bar-end shifters. These are neat and smart, and ours alone.

In the old days these would allow you to put most any down tube shifter, but that's not the case anymore. There are ways to monkey with certain parts of the system, washers and spacers from Shimano downtube shifters and so forth, but it is beyond the scope here to explain the play-by-play solutions, and none are easy. So, get these pods here only if you have down tube shifters that mount onto brazed-on shifter bosses without special spacers specific to that particular model shifter.

- If you have a Campy dt shifter from the '70s, no problem.
- If you have a SunTour friction dt shifter from the '70s, no problem.
- If you have SunTour Sprint dt shifters, no-problem.
- If you have Shimano dt shifters then you need to get the Shimano spacers (part # 17-135 go up to the drop-down selection box).  A pair for $4.

But anything else, it's probably not going to work.

If the shifter mounts onto a steel frame using just that round spacer with the square hole and the bent foot-stop, the aluminum one that virtually all pre-indexed, brazed-on style downtube shifter used, then ok.