Originally Posted by
SurferRosa
Good question. And it's difficult right now to find hoods that look appropriate. Maybe try to find some inexpensive vintage levers that already have hoods on them. Got a co-op bin? Really, almost anything will look better than the awful Cane Creeks. Let's see the black ones.
A Google search for Weinmann hoods results in three choices: (a) Cane Creek, (b) Did-Compe and (c) Used or NOS Weinmann ones (
40-year-old gum rubber?
) The bike's owner is on a camping trip, I'll send him photos of both and let him decide. And -- you can soak hoods in hot water to make them pliable to install; getting them back off, not practical to do that. I see what might be the beginning of seam splits on the Cane Creek hoods after only one removal. Sheesh! And, of course, Rustines is now in a parallel universe.
But, I got the cables/bar-tape/whatever re-done; photo to follow, probably to wind up my topic on the Falcon project anyway. Shifts fine, I think. Zip tie no longer needed, it's gone. Uh, going from riding on the hoods to the ramps to the tops, your hands can contact that additional cabling... one gets used to that?