Originally Posted by
kayakdiver
^^^ looks like that one would be interesting to pedal.
So you took a picture of this to sell it? Crashes happen... Been down by car and my own dumb fault already this year.. Neither the car or my own stupid mistake caused the brifters to break. If you don't over tighten them they will rotate instead of break almost 100% of the time.
I can appreciate you liking one over the other but... to say that they will break in a crash has little to do with reality.
Yeah, I switch my pedals depending on what type of riding I'm doing at the time, this just happens to be a pic without pedals. Nope, this is one bike that's been with me everywhere. Around the world a couple times and has over 50,000 miles on it. It's going nowhere except down the road with me on it.
The idea of keeping them loose like a motorcycle's brake/clutch levers is a good one.. It could keep them from breaking. Two of my buddies went down on their Tiagra equipped bikes and both broke the brifters. They both rode home in a single gear, one was only 5 miles and the other 12. I'll have to mention to them that they may want to loosen them up. Obviously the price to purchase new levers wasn't real either.. I'll let them know. Their wives will be happier.