I've been riding Shimano Atheena 11 spd shifters on my road bike for about the last 6-7 years. They have been crashed and ridden in some gnarly conditions and still work better than my brand new Ultegra or 105 brifters I've had over the years. They are SILVER and look really nice on steel bikes, and also have easily the most comfortable shape I've ever felt. Keith was right, they are miiiiiles ahead of any dedicated brake lever I've had. Although the Cane Creek and SRAM levers are pretty good. SRAM's are actually identical to their brifters, just with no shifter guts inside.
Anyway - my point is they're both great. I love my dura ace bar ends, but the Campy brifters are the creme de la creme. They shift so smoothly, nearly never need adjustment, are comfy and look classic. On Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 4:35:08 PM UTC-6, Jim Bronson wrote: > > With the bar ends, it's more a function of sweat dripping off other > parts of my body since they are closer to the rider. It seems to go > from my chin right on to the bar-ends fairly frequently. With > brifters, the mechanism is much farther forwards so they seem to get > less sweat. They do get the sweat off of your hands and arms, but > none of the sweat off of your torso. > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Steve Palincsar <pali...@his.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > On 12/10/2015 11:04 AM, 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. > > > > > > Would you be even more likely to gum up brifters with sweat? I mean, > your > > hands are right on the levers all the time with brifters, whereas with > bar > > end shifters you grab hold of the lever only when you're shifting. > > > > > > > > -- > > 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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.
