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09-08-12, 01:18 PM
I recently picked up a nice 1983 Trek 720, and I want to upgrade the bar-end shifters to brifters. The primary reason I would like brifters is that right now (and for the forseeable next few years) I use this bike
to pull my daughter on her Burley (single speed) tag-a-long. With my daughter and the Burley, I have an extra 80-85 lbs on the back - like loaded touring with panniers that move - and not always in the right direction (laugh) :).
Though she is getting better at pedaling, she is often out of rhythm with my pedaling, so I really want to keep my hands on the bars. Prior to finding the Trek 720, I was using a 2007 Jamis Aurora, which I really liked, with one
exception - toe overlap. When we would climb big hills, and I would slow down, i often found I was catching my toes on the front wheel as I tried to keep balance with her side to side shifts. However, I really liked the brifters and cross-brakes, as they allowed me to keep my hands on the tops of the bars, still manage the shifting and braking, and not have to move to the drops to shift.
Here is my question. I could pull the tiagra 9-speed triple brifters and front der off the Jamis, put them on the trek, then sell the Jamis for whatever I can get out of it. OR, I could sell the Jamis as a complete bike - then buy new brifters (which of course, cost a lot more when bought alone vs as part of a bike package).
I also have a similar option with my wife's 9-speed ultegra (6610) brifters. She has a 2001 Trek 2300 wsd (47cm) with full triple ultegra with only a couple of hundred miles on it. We got it just before we got married, stopped riding when she got pregnant, then went to a carbon bike with a more relaxed geometry when she returned to biking a couple of years later. So essentially, they are almost new ultegra 9-speed brifters.
Would I do better to sell the 2300 as a whole, the buy new brifters (I really can't use any of the other parts off the 2300 for the touring bike, but could use the brifters; although it is my job to sell the bike, my dear wife may have a stronger opinion about selling the whole bike or sans the brifters, so I would need some knowledgeable back up that this is a valid plan. The thing I see is that new brifters alone are very expensive, and we already own these - but I am trying to minimize cost, as I do have another road bike (well, um, 2 really :) ).
PS. Touring gurus who read this should not worry; I will hold onto my bar-end shifters in case I ever plan a cross-country tour - I can swap them out then (I had bar-ends on my previous touring bike, but lost it in a fire).
Any thoughts from folks who may have some experience with buying/selling would be much appreciated. I am not sure if this question would fare better in a different forum, but thought I'd start here.
Thanks!
to pull my daughter on her Burley (single speed) tag-a-long. With my daughter and the Burley, I have an extra 80-85 lbs on the back - like loaded touring with panniers that move - and not always in the right direction (laugh) :).
Though she is getting better at pedaling, she is often out of rhythm with my pedaling, so I really want to keep my hands on the bars. Prior to finding the Trek 720, I was using a 2007 Jamis Aurora, which I really liked, with one
exception - toe overlap. When we would climb big hills, and I would slow down, i often found I was catching my toes on the front wheel as I tried to keep balance with her side to side shifts. However, I really liked the brifters and cross-brakes, as they allowed me to keep my hands on the tops of the bars, still manage the shifting and braking, and not have to move to the drops to shift.
Here is my question. I could pull the tiagra 9-speed triple brifters and front der off the Jamis, put them on the trek, then sell the Jamis for whatever I can get out of it. OR, I could sell the Jamis as a complete bike - then buy new brifters (which of course, cost a lot more when bought alone vs as part of a bike package).
I also have a similar option with my wife's 9-speed ultegra (6610) brifters. She has a 2001 Trek 2300 wsd (47cm) with full triple ultegra with only a couple of hundred miles on it. We got it just before we got married, stopped riding when she got pregnant, then went to a carbon bike with a more relaxed geometry when she returned to biking a couple of years later. So essentially, they are almost new ultegra 9-speed brifters.
Would I do better to sell the 2300 as a whole, the buy new brifters (I really can't use any of the other parts off the 2300 for the touring bike, but could use the brifters; although it is my job to sell the bike, my dear wife may have a stronger opinion about selling the whole bike or sans the brifters, so I would need some knowledgeable back up that this is a valid plan. The thing I see is that new brifters alone are very expensive, and we already own these - but I am trying to minimize cost, as I do have another road bike (well, um, 2 really :) ).
PS. Touring gurus who read this should not worry; I will hold onto my bar-end shifters in case I ever plan a cross-country tour - I can swap them out then (I had bar-ends on my previous touring bike, but lost it in a fire).
Any thoughts from folks who may have some experience with buying/selling would be much appreciated. I am not sure if this question would fare better in a different forum, but thought I'd start here.
Thanks!