Unless you have tiny hands, your levers are set too high, or your bars are tilted back like that Lovely Bicycle I am confused by this statement.
Pics of the setup?
If it’s a tiny hand thing have you tried short reach levers or (if running brifters) shims to bring them closer?
i definitely do have small hands, which might be entire problem, but i swear that i’ve heard other people have this same complaint about noodles. it could also be the dia compe 287v levers that i’m using.
not taking a new pic, using this one that i’ve already posted somewhere on tarck. it’s the trek in the background. i guess my levers might look a little high, but that’s where they need to be to have the best transition.
[quote=jamey]i definitely do have small hands, which might be entire problem, but i swear that i’ve heard other people have this same complaint about noodles. it could also be the dia compe 287v levers that i’m using.
not taking a new pic, using this one that i’ve already posted somewhere on tarck. it’s the trek in the background. i guess my levers might look a little high, but that’s where they need to be to have the best transition.
Looks like a combo of lever reach, levers mounted high, and bars tilted up.
Unfortunately I can’t think of a v-friendly short reach lever, but those dia compes have a pretty scooped out hood shape. Maybe Tektros or Cane Creek would be better?
Those levers seem pretty high. You might want to switch to Tektro V levers if you can stand them. I love them, but many seem to be against them. They have a flatter top that transitions really nicely from the flat section of NUDLZ.
Yeah, I’ve been meaning to make the tektro switch I agree that they are a little high, but outside of this issueit feels good.
Here’s how I setup my Nitto Sobas (same shape as noodles):
Before wrapping with tape, I placed a ruler across the bottom of the drops and made sure the tips of the brake levers barely touched. Then, bars were rotated so that levers pointed almost straight down. Did a minor counter-clockwise bar rotation sometime in the past year to get it just right.
Maybe this will help the lady with the petrified cat above, too.
Petrified cat lady went on another group ride. She’s gonna be a roadie before we know it. Just as soon as she finds the ultimate answer to which is the better shifter: Campagnolo or Shimano.
fuck
dint she read this thread? how long is it going to take for her to stop italicizing BRAND NAMES??
o wait, further down the post she doesnt italicize rivendell or seven, but the first seven she italicizes?
GOH DAMIT BE CONSISTENT I BET YOU DONT EVEN HOLD YOUR LINE IN THE DAMN PACELINE
How long before she discovers Jens?
Or, how long before she overlaps a wheel and meets pave?
She and the co-habitant should practice some bump drills.
She better not read this.
she’s doing it right imo. get a road bike go clipless learn to spin and ditch the preconcieved riv shit.
I wouldn’t consider borrowing an expensive road bike that doesn’t fit right a part of “doing it right”, but otherwise yep.
She better not read this.[/quote]
Yeah cars and bicycles are totally comparable items on a case by case basis and the situations one utilizes either is the same.
I like that this is coming from a riv owner!
but seriously, I think platform pedals are one of the worst things they advocate. and brifter hate. and threaded steerers. and fear of dick brake.
I like that this is coming from a riv owner!
but seriously, I think platform pedals are one of the worst things they advocate. and brifter hate. and threaded steerers. and fear of dick brake.[/quote]
And lug worship. TIG welded frames with dog-leg forks are for commoners.
Hey let’s go take swedish film style pictures
Threaded steerers ain’t so bad, much better than the magnitude of threadless bonerage that would be needed otherwise for their market. Plus it lends a significant amount of believability to their whole ‘classic look’ thing.
I think it’s good that someone is out there marketing platform pedals to these guys — just yesterday I peeled a fred off the pavement after he fell over clipped in right in front of me, on a bike that definitely didn’t need them. Let them graduate into clipless if they need it. I mean can you imagine how much extra angst the italicizer would be blogging about if she’d been doing her ‘sporty’ rides clipless? Obvs. now she should be replacing her Powergrips with Frogs or something, but that def. wasn’t the case a few months ago.
Fear of dick brakes is unwarranted, but it really wouldn’t fit with their style. I do very much appreciate that Rivendell intentionally specs their bikes for nice modern dual-pivots with well-placed bridges whenever possible instead of cantis.
The brifter hate is obnoxious, but they do promote bar-ends and thumbies most of the time. The real poison is their hate on indexing, if you look at the italicizer’s writeup of her first group ride it’s clear that she could not deal at all with the friction shifting. People aren’t generally dumb enough to follow Grant and use freewheels, but then that makes using friction quite unfriendly with 8 or 9 speed cassettes.
The lug worship really needs to GTFO, Grant has been outright lying for years about lugs making frames more durable or easier to replace tubes in.
I keep telling my 60yo mother to switch to clipless for her 50 mile rides. She rides her clips and straps from 82.
Her old lady friends fall over all the time, I keep saying they must have mental problems.
