Posted by: earleb
If you want to run a thumbie under the bars you can use either of these guys.
https://www.rivbike.com/products/kjalgjoihjga44451
https://www.rivbike.com/products/sunrace-one-at-a-time-thumb-shifter-right-side
Steam punk in modern mtb would be a pair of them under the bars, mod the left one to operate your dropper. Why not just a regular dropper remote? Because symmetry matters.
Someone needs to hack up a way to get an 11-48 9spd, just enough range and the jumps won't be too bad.
Seriously looking back to 2020 if had known about these existing would have got these and run it on the Stylus. Because seriously been running a plain old Deore thumbie on the Wideangle and really hasn't bothered me. Maybe it would bother some if was racing. Will be considering those shifters for later though.