Originally Posted by
milkbaby
1. Some people say the bigger radius on the back of the bars will produce less drag so your shifting will be better. Some people don't have a problem either way, but if I were building up new, I'd just run the shift cables on the back to avoid having to undo and rewrap everything if there happened to be a problem.
that may be true, but be careful where you actually place the cables. i did this last time i installed new cables and really screwed it up with the result that the cables were right under my palms, especially out toward the hoods. extremely uncomfortable. just re-did it and put them on the front of the bars, and it's much better. of course, i probably could have just moved them farther down/back and accomplished the same thing.