[QUOTE=sarahspins;502171
Personally I think I'd want thumbies over bar-end shifters on a touring bike, but having never tried either it's hard to say I don't particularly mind the stem shifters on my mixte... since there aren't a ton of gears to mess with [/QUOTE]

I will let you know what I think of my bar-ends once I am brave enough to move my hands to shift - or grow tired enough of having a functional fixee touring bike to do the same I've already given myself permission to change bars and go back to trigger shifters if I hate the bar end shifters - but I have to give them an honest trial. Everyone else has seemed to do well with them