i am still using thumbshifters on my hack bike, and i still reckon they are the best shifters ever made. does anyone know if there is anywhere that you can still get them. unlikely i know, as they haven't been made for a while. is there a secret stock of them somewhere? dx or xt

While people are out hunting, any sign of a Tioga Disk-Drive (Yes, I really do want one!) and a pair of original, metal hinged Frogskins?


As to the thumby question, they really were the nuts, and still are. Best bet is to just hit the phone and call around the shops that were really big back in the day. Try a few like Psycho in Battersea, Yellow Jersey (Now Cycle Surgery) in Camden, or Cycle Centre on New Cavendish Street, W1. I know that's a bit London based, but that kind of shop may well have over stocked at the time.


Good luck!

ta m8, i'll give that a try.
i always wanted a tioga disc drive too, it was the noise they made as much as anything. another firm made something nearly identical around the same time, i think it may have been sugino

St John street Cycles have DX in stock but they are £50!. Best bet is to try wanteds on this and the STW forum. That's how I got mine.

Whuuuuuumph.


That was the noise really!

Awesome kit, piss all use

John's Bikes in Bath had some a short while ago.

p.s. I still have a set on my 1987 Gary Fisher - Hoo Koo E Koo, along with a Biopace Chainset and a U-Brake - Kool!!!