Everything old is new again.

Beat me to it!  It popped up in my FB feed today and I was thinking of posting it here.  All my bikes bar one are friction - the exception being one intended as a loan bike for visitors. 

I made up a bike for my daughter when she went to college about seven years ago with indexed downtube shifters and a Shimano 105 gruppo (I actually upgraded to a 600 SIS RD) and I liked the way that worked.  She was recently charged an exhorbitant amount by a bike shop for repairs and the shifting doesn't seem to be working very well.  I suspect a compatibility problem, as the writer in Outside mentions, that I will need to sort out.