I have one set, of Ultegra STI 9 speeds on my RB-1. I do like them, but mostly for variety's sake. It's kind of fun to have one bike upon which regular and frequent shifting is part of the ride experience. If I had to choose or only had one bike, I still like simple, separate shift levers of one sort of another though. Ignoring the durability and adjustment issues, something about the inherent side-to-side wobble of the brifter levers is unnerving to me. My favorite system for drop bars are the Kelly take-off mounts.
I'll say this though: The comfort/ergonomics of most brifters, including the one you linked, is *vastly* superior to any lever-only design out there, that I've found. The hoods themselves are large enough that they're actually a joy to rest your hands on (indeed this seems to be the primary hand position for most modern road bikes), and the levers are way easier to reach from the drop position even when the brake body is mounted high enough to be utilized as a true hand perch. (Hopefully that makes sense - I'm a mountain biker who happens to own a couple of road bikes, but the terminology is foreign to me. Basically, on a bar like the noodle, I seem to have to choose between being able to comfortably and readily reach the levers from the drop position without a strained contortion of my hands and body, or being able to comfortably rest on the hoods when I want to ride in that position. The brake levers are also easier and more effective to operate from the hoods themselves, but the TRP ones that Riv sells do a better job of this than most. On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 9:05:33 AM UTC-7, Jim Bronson wrote: > > I find myself re-thinking my allegiance to bar-ends, because I sweat > so much between May and September riding here in Texas, that I gum > them up fairly regularly. > > Then something like this comes up. > > http://www.nashbar.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?partNumber=YS-ST4600-BASE&catalogId=10052&storeId=10053&langId=-1&utm_source=nashbar&utm_medium=email&utm_content=151210Th&utm_campaign=Products&cm_mmc=Email-_-nashbar-_-151210Th-_-Products&cm_em=jim.bron...@gmail.com&spMailingID=12498453&spUserID=NjA1MzcwOTY2NDES1&spJobID=643355659&spReportId=NjQzMzU1NjU5S0 > > > And I find myself feeling conflicted. This is only a little more than > what Riv sells bar-ends for... > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > signature goes here > -- 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.
