linnefaulk

I thought it just needed new tires and a tune up but it needed new brifters. Brifters meant new bar tape…

I picked it up today and it looks and feel like a brand new bike to me. I only rode it for a couple of seasons before I got pregnant and took a 17 year break.

I have been riding my 1990 Trek 820 which is built like a tank and rides like one. The 1220 seems so fragile and I worry I am too heavy for slim tires.

I will take it out tomorrow for a really ride. I am so paranoid of flats because of the broken glass I see on the road. :not amused:

I am glad the new shifters were not too difficult to figure out.

I had them install my Ergon pedals. I am not ready to go back to clipless.

Wilfred Laurier

did you specifically ask to have the brifters placed so high on the bars
or was that how you had the old ones
because that is higher than the standard position

linnefaulk

I didn't notice. It must have been how there were before the change.
After riding today, I can't imagine them any lower. (At least until I lose some more stomach. )

I need to work on riding in this different position. I kept tensing up my should and I felt it right away.

Null66

I rode my '95 1220 commuting on the Erie Canal, plus pleasure rides for a couple years. I was 200-220, plus a pack of tools and such, sometimes a drag-able laptop...

I went through a couple wheels, but I could identify the shock that did it almost every time. Like a tall sharp edged pothole, or that one curb I hit, and the attempt to ride a part of the canal that wasn't reconstructed yet so the rocks were the size of large potatoes...

I'm waiting until I'm down to ~220 to refit it as my go fast bike. Worse case I'll have a great wheel builder I know go over my rear and might replace the front.