No go.
My cable isn't long enough to just swap out the brakes and the shifter (I have internal gears)
I am going from a flat bar to a pretty curvy albatross...

I took the whole thing apart , had to cut one of the grips off only to realize....damn!

Called the closest BS, and one that's been around forever, but doesn;t have the swamp of customers that others have - asked how long it would take to get new cable... I'd have to leave it for the day....they said something about "cutting" the cables.

Since I cut the ugly grips off, and really pared down all the doo dads, I was looking at the old handlbar (which I reinstalled) and holding up a pair of tan leather grips to it and I thought....hmmmm... niiiice. With my tan B67, looks pretty hot....( in an old fashioned way... )
Maybe i should just save the switch for the dead of winter when I know I won't be riding for at least a day or so...I do want to sit up a little straighter....maybe just a shim for now?

!. If I put the leather grips on my old bar ...will I have to cut them off when the bars DO get switched? Or does a mechanic have a way to save them?

2. HOw involved IS adding longer cables?

3. I am totally mystified by ths threadless stem...where the heck would the shim go?? And what kind?

oh tia, my patient friends...
elk