Ummmm.. My Vaya has vertical drops. You mean the CC has horizontal and the Soma and Vaya don't, right?

To the OP..

I have a matte black bike. What you've been told about keeping clean is true. Plus if they get scuffed, it's actually shiny.. and you can't easily get the matte back

And I just put the 5700 Shimano on the Vaya build. It's nice stuff. The SRAM is nothing to sneeze at, if you're looking at equal product lines then the SRAM equivalent of 105 is actually Apex.