Campy Bar End Shifter Questions

[cpsqlrwn]

Setting aside what the seller claims, any thoughts or experience on how many gears these shifters would comfortably accomodate? Do you think they would routinely handle 8-speed? Anyone with any experience with this vintage of shifter? Thanks!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/150897709806?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

Also, would these be road bike or mountain bike shifters and does that even matter since they are friction?

[cnighbor1]

How much a shifter will shift is based on diameter of barrell
More cogs means more cable needs to wrapped around barrell
So to check measure diameter of an 8 speed campy and these
Need to be same or very close
Charles

[oldpotatoe]

Setting aside what the seller claims, any thoughts or experience on how many gears these shifters would comfortably accomodate? Do you think they would routinely handle 8-speed? Anyone with any experience with this vintage of shifter? Thanks!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/150897709806?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

Also, would these be road bike or mountain bike shifters and does that even matter since they are friction?

Designed as road bar ends, if you use a non slant parallelogram RD(not a modern one), you 'may' get all 8 cogs but I am skeptical. Using a more modern RD, the lever doesn't have the throw to get all 8 before getting to the 'stops' of the lever..maybe 7 tho.

[Hindmost]

On the Ebay set, one of the lock nuts went missing and was replaced with a nylock.