Do Campy hoods mount to bar at a different angle vs. Shimano?
10-25-04, 06:18 AM
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Do Campy hoods mount to bar at a different angle vs. Shimano?
Not to start the old war again. . . I rode a Campagnolo equiped bike for the first time this weekend, and really liked that way the hoods fit my hands. Seems like Shimano hoods angle up from the bar, creating a low spot where my hands fall. The Campy hoods projected out from the flat part of the bar, continuing on straight where the bar curved downward into the drops. The bike I ride now has bar-cons, so I have no experience mounting eigther company's sti shifters. My question is whether the campagnolo shifter's mounts differently are positioned differently, or if the difference was in the bars. For more info, the bike was a new Cannondale.
If one of each kind of shifter where mounted to a straight piece of pipe, would the Campagnolo hood be at a right angle to the pipe while the shimano hood came off of the pipe at an angle?
Thanks in advance to all you guys who work with bikes all the time and take time out to answer my questions.
If one of each kind of shifter where mounted to a straight piece of pipe, would the Campagnolo hood be at a right angle to the pipe while the shimano hood came off of the pipe at an angle?
Thanks in advance to all you guys who work with bikes all the time and take time out to answer my questions.
10-25-04, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Hemlock
Not to start the old war again. . . I rode a Campagnolo equiped bike for the first time this weekend, and really liked that way the hoods fit my hands. Seems like Shimano hoods angle up from the bar, creating a low spot where my hands fall. The Campy hoods projected out from the flat part of the bar, continuing on straight where the bar curved downward into the drops. The bike I ride now has bar-cons, so I have no experience mounting eigther company's sti shifters. My question is whether the campagnolo shifter's mounts differently are positioned differently, or if the difference was in the bars. For more info, the bike was a new Cannondale.
If one of each kind of shifter where mounted to a straight piece of pipe, would the Campagnolo hood be at a right angle to the pipe while the shimano hood came off of the pipe at an angle?
Thanks in advance to all you guys who work with bikes all the time and take time out to answer my questions.
If one of each kind of shifter where mounted to a straight piece of pipe, would the Campagnolo hood be at a right angle to the pipe while the shimano hood came off of the pipe at an angle?
Thanks in advance to all you guys who work with bikes all the time and take time out to answer my questions.
10-27-04, 02:34 PM
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A lot of it is how the person mounting them decided to do it. Next time you tape your bars play with the position of the controls for your comfort.
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