When I got my Lynskey a couple of years ago, one of the reasons why I initially put bar-end shifters on it was because I really liked the convenience of changing from index to friction shifting by just rotating the D-ring on the bar-end mechanism.

Trouble is, the 10-speed bar end shifters don't have that capability (or at least they didn't when I bought them), so that pretty much defeated the purpose for me. The Lynskey has brifters now.