Dear Joe, Check the reach of the bars. The noodles are a pretty-normal 90mm reach, 140mm drop. If the Salsa bars have a shorter reach, then the levers will be farther away on the noodle than they were on the Salsa. In practice, I use the bulge-formed noodle bar and the Compass 1970's bend bars(115/125). I have to adjust the stem length, but they're both lovely bars with Ergo and Doubletap levers.
Best, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 5:34:26 PM UTC-6, Joe Bernard wrote: > > I picked up a Bike Friday a few weeks ago, my first dropbar bike in 10 > years. I'm liking the Shimano Sora brifters enough to stick with them for a > while (a vast improvement over the first-gen 9-speed Ultegras I tried years > ago), but the 42cm Salsa bars just ain't cuttin' it. My last dropbars were > 44cm Noodles, which I loved. My concern is that being slightly wider, with > a long ramp, might make the reach to pushing those shifters sideways a bit > long. Does anyone here have experience with this setup? > > Thanks, > Joe "click click" Bernard > Vallejo, CA. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
