Originally Posted by
goldfinch
....Frankly, what I now dislike about the bike are the brakes. They are not as easy to pull and not nearly as effective as the brakes on my Madone. I find them a bit hard to operate from the hoods but fine with the extra leverage on the drops. It might just be because they are a lower level component. Is there some kind of adjustment on the reach of Tiagra brakes? I can't tell by looking at them.
Post a pix of the front brakes as they are on the bike right now and one of the levers on the current bars. Include the model and brand of each. Also tell us if the reach of the current levers are too big or too small. Helping from a factual baseline is much easier than just rambling on the topic.
/K