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Originally Posted by Bacciagalupe
- you can have problems mounting a handlebar bag if you use STI levers. The bag may well bump into, and therefore break, the cables. (I've seen it happen btw)

I could also refer to tourers as retro-grouches stuck in the 80s, but I don't have a fire extinguisher handy.
Not if you use a V-brake noodle to move the cable out of the way.

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And some of us old guys are neoretro, i.e. we embrace new stuff but we're selective about it.
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