Because She Who Must Be Obeyed, must be obeyed:




To make a short story long, I bought some white-hooded Shimano Tricolor brake levers that came with "spare white hoods" that were a phenomenal deal. I must have been so excited that I didn't bother to look closely at the pictures of the "spares." Turns out they were Dia Compe aero lever hoods. I cleaned them up and put them aside.

Some time later my wife complained again that she couldn't use the brake levers on the Allez that she dearly loves and a lightbulb went off! I began scouring the interweb for some era-appropriate Dia Compe aero levers and some chrome inline brake levers. I found a cheap pair of DCs with gross hoods (the white "spares" fit perfectly), acquired the necessary Soma silver inline levers and went to work.

If I'm not mistaken, DC made the Superbe levers so I figured that a straight up DC swap would still match the grouppo. Besides, those Cane Creek replacement hoods don't fit worth beans. It's not complete yet, but after a 40 mile ride with some short but wicked gravel descents, my wife is very pleased!