Patrick, I'm so confused, I thought the whole point was you didn't like the R8000 brifters!? 🤣
Well, if you do want to go with those, why not just use yours without gutting them? It's not like they need to have the shifter mech removed.... Ben On Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 12:41:51 PM UTC-7 Patrick Moore wrote: > If I choose to keep the anatomic bar and add Microshift BES, a happy > accident would be that the BES would add another inch or so of real estate > for my palms; when I tilt the anatomic bar upward so that the > brifter-to-bar angle is perfectly flat while leavingthe brake levers low > enough that I can easily reach the levers from the hooks, the payback is > that there is very little left at the ends of the curves or hooks for my > palms when riding there. > > After some back-and-forth with various people on various lists, I’m > inclined to do this: > > Keep the Cannondale anatomic bar. > > Buy some 11 speed Microshift BES in black. > > And since it turns out that the TRP aero levers have hoods about 1 cm > shorter than those of the Ultragra R8000 brifters currently on the Roadeo: > > Either gut the Ultegra R8000 brifters of their shifting innards and > continue using those for braking, or, better: > > Find someone who has done this to a pair of brifters roughly similar in > shape and dimensions to the Ultegra R8000 BES and is willing to sell them; > > Or: find someone who has a pair of brifters with shifting innards in any > condition whatsoever who is willing to sell them, and gut them myself. > > Thus: Does anyone have a pair of gutted brifters with black levers, or a > pair of un-gutted brifters with black levers, to sell or trade? They need > not be Ultegra R8000; anything roughly of the same shape and length ought > to work. > > Thanks. > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2026 at 2:59 PM Patrick Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Roadeo behaved impeccably on Saturday’s 50+ mile ride, except for the >> indexed shifting which, after I had fine tuned it perfectly, the mechanic >> who checked the rd hanger alignment managed to mess up. This messing up was >> all the easier in that I’d modified the stock 20-22-24-27-29-32 to a much >> more reasonable 20-21-23-27-32. The 11 sp chain that tracked blissfully on >> the stock grumbled on either the 20 or the 27 on the new, do what I might, >> until I fixed it by replacing the 3/4 worn 11 sp chain with a 12 speed >> chain. >> >> Anyway, a pox on and a fig to indexed shifting. Here are two things, of >> which I’d like to do one: >> >> 1. Replace the Cannondale anatomic bar with a Maes Parallel, replace the >> R8000 brifters with BL R400-type levers, and add friction bar cons or some >> other friction shifters to do the shifting on the stock cranks/derailleurs >> over the 11 rear cogs. >> >> Problems: I’d like back Maes Parallel or very similar bar, black brake >> lever, and black friction shifter. >> >> Question: I can live with a silver Maes Parallel by taping it all up in >> black. And Microshift makes bar end shifters in black and for 11 speed with >> friction option. But does anyone make a *black* brake lever, >> non-brifter, that is very close in shape to the BL R400 or Dura Ace BL 7402? >> >> 2. Keep the Cannondale anatomic bar (or replace with a 40 cm >> still-anatomic and black and short-ramped Ritchy bar that someone offered >> me) and find some back non-shifting brake levers with similarly long hoods, >> and find black bar end shifters or some other black friction shifting mech >> that can handle 11 in back. >> >> One option for #2 would be to invest $212 (VO) in the Growtac “Equal >> Control Levers,” and simply install these in place of the R8000 brifters. >> >> Even better would be to use black Microshift 11 sp bar end shifters in >> friction mode, paired with non-shifting brake levers with more or less the >> same shape as the R8000 brifters. >> >> The R8000 levers are (I know this is imprecise) 9 cm from tip of vertical >> rise back to the very end of the rubber; for comparison, the BL R400s and >> DA BL 7402s are 7 cm for the same distance. >> >> Upshot: does anyone know of brake levers very like the BL R400 levers, >> but in black? Or does anyone know of brake levers that are very like the >> R8000 brifters, that also come in black, and that don’t have the s >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/8b5c206c-3919-4836-9ef0-c829744b3e86n%40googlegroups.com.
