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Old 01-22-26 | 06:36 AM
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Bikes: 1972 Motobecane Grand Record, 2023 Specialized Tarmac SL7,'26 Spesh Diverge, '22 Kona Dew+

Originally Posted by randyjawa


To put it bluntly, I did NOT like the feel and felt like I had lost some degree of control.
I'm not surprised!

When I went with a threadless adapter & Postino bar I found that, for me the most comfortable position for brakes was more out front and more parallel to the bars than rotated down, out nearer the ends. Adding thumbies took some time to rebalance everything (couldn't find my cable cutters so there's still some tweaking yet to do).

I don't think I'd like thumbies like what you'd used there, the mounts put the levers too far from the bar. May be awkward to address without having to alter hand positions quite a lot. The Sun Race pair @bikemig pointed me to makes a good place to start, they don't require separate bar mounts.

Originally Posted by squirtdad
Sight unseen I would suggest the tektro city levers:
https://velo-orange.com/collections/...-22-2-dia-bars
...and a thumbie for friction.... which one depends a bit on how many cogs you have in the back
...super simple but work are falcon https://velo-orange.com/collections/...thumb-shifters
...beyond that you can look at some of the rivendell stuff https://www.rivbike.com/collections/shifting
Gonna copy out those links for future reference... I do like the look of those Tektro levers I do... thanks for all that!!

I'm off work this afternoon, plans include getting my MB back onto trainer for a few miles' testing @ Z2-Z3. Time will tell!
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