Grip shift with gearboxs is fine, as you can change more gears in one movement than with a trigger, so for a all MTN bike it's great. If you run the shifter in so you're hand is only just touching it, YOU WILL NEVER MIS SHIFT. I had a Lahar and had no issues with shifting at all. Oh, and to the tester, it was about 40lbs, so hardly heavy for a bike five years ago. You guys banging on about the shifter are very narrow minded, you'r missing, the massive gear range, shifting when not pedaling, virtually zero maintenance. Fool proof, even virtually zero gear tuning, way less unsprung weight, so better performing suspension, also lighter rear end for chucking about, longer lasting chain, low COG, shifting even when coasting through a rock garden, and not having something as fragile as your balls hanging off the back of your bike to be smashed, bent etc. I'd happily swap that for grip shift, and have, as I now have a Zerode, a comuter,trailbike hardtail with an Alfine. Also the cost is made back so quickly, evn without any broken mechs, your chain will last longer, and no perishable cassette(yeah you still have one sprocket front and rear, but they're not having a chain rammed into them every minute. I'm all over it. Sign me up.