I have Campy Athena ergo levers on my Gios Torino Super Record, same cables for about five years. My riding season is shorter here so consider that, but the ergo levers were really a 'set it and forget it' system. I didn't even have in-line cable adjusters. They never went out of alignment ONCE, and this is 11-speed! The campy system is just so good. Plus the brifters are 100% rebuildable!
On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > On 12/21/2015 10:57 AM, William deRosset wrote: > >> >Right hand Shimano STI levers - especially those with the cable exiting >> >sideways - are known for eating shifter cables. Dear Steve, >> >> The current generation (6800;9000;5800) 11-speed shimano shifters >> reportedly eat cables faster than the 8/9s stuff ever did. The cables are >> now consumables--replace cable inners with every other chain to be on the >> safe side? The sad thing is that the minimum bend radius to prevent fraying >> is known (or easily calculated anyway if the cable is specified), and >> Shimano has consistently failed to make that effort. The Campagnolo shifter >> drum is probably pretty close to that radius. Their 8/9/10s Ergo levers and >> index-only downtube shifters didn't/don't eat cables at all. Honestly, >> neither do Shimano's DT levers, but the Simplex and Suntour drums were >> smaller sometimes did. I can't speak to bar-ends, as I've never really >> warmed up to them. I reluctantly use them on cyclocross bikes (not >> high-mileage machines, and the bike in a race only needs two gears--42X25 >> and something in the middle of the freewheel given my skills. I end up >> running a lot), tried really hard to like them back when I first adopted >> half-step gearing. John Forrester said they were the right thing to use >> with that gear system, and I just can't agree. Downtube shifters win >> there). If I must keep my hands on the bars (some tandems, mtb, and cx), I >> prefer thumbshifters or Ergo levers. >> >> > In my experience, Shimano indexed bar ends fray a cable about every 5,000 > miles. Sun Tour Sprint levers adapted to bar end use will fray a right > hand cable about every 10,000 miles. > > I have heard that Ergo does not eat cables. No word at all on SRAM -- > either that means not many are using it (which I doubt) or it means cable > fraying isn't an issue with SRAM Double Tap either. > > How much you like downtube levers depends a lot in my experience on where > your hand is when you drop it. For Jan, when he drops his hand it is on > the downtube shift lever. I assume for you it's the same. For me, it's > way high up, and requires a body bend and reach almost on a par with > reaching for a water bottle. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/CooI02eXwyI/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
