Originally Posted by
cny-bikeman
Makes sense to me - bars rotated down, levers moved up. The drops look much more reasonable now and the levers won't require as much wrist deflection. There is so little (if any) truly straight section at the end of the bars that the line does not necessarily mean that the aforementioned rule was followed. Sometimes one just eyeballs the position by experience but it's best for the rider to test before wrapping. Also, isn't the normal cable routing for those bars underneath rather than in back?
I asked the shop guy about this when I picked my bike up and he said that for the shifting cable, a large curve is best for shifting performance. Also said that when they get bikes, they have to move the shift cable from the angled (middle guide) cable guide to the straight (outer) cable guide most of the time, to achieve this large curve in the shift cable.
Also, the brake cables go under and into the cable groove/cutout, just not the shift cables. A little bummed on the aesthetics of the cabling, but if it means ****ty shift performance to have all 4 cables in the cable groove/cutout, I'd rather have the good shifting!