Anybody try the C/V-ish guidonnet option? Dia Compe makes a modern version.



Combine it with bar end shifters and you've got quite the options for hand position without needing interrupters to interrupt the braking power of your aero brake levers.

My wife has three bikes, with slightly different setups and different brakes.

1) '12 Kona Jake with Sora 10s brifters, inline brake levers and canti brakes

2) '85 Specialized Allez SE with Dia Compe aero brakes, Origin8 inline brake levers and Superbe side lever brakes

3) '73 Gitane TdF with MAFAC guidonnet levers and MAFAC Racer center pull brakes.

She likes them all but gives a slight advantage to the Kona's setup. She is able to shift just fine with the Sora brifters. The other two bikes have DT friction shift levers, that may affect her preference. The Gitane is her most comfortable bike, but the old brakes and levers don't have quite the power as the modern inlines do. She's not sort, but has smallish hands with little strength. I would try any of those setups.