Small hands and STI Levers

I'm glad it only takes a couple of puffs - I get dizzy blowing up an air mattress.

All this talk about shims is fascinating -- the brake reach really is the one thing I would have changed on my long-lost little red bike.

Can you all post pictures of your shim setups? It would be very educational.

Another small hander here. I more or less solved my problem with a combination of bars (short reach & shallow drop - FSA wing pro compact - more comfy for me than the Ritchey Biomax). I also had a pair of short reach Ultegra levers. They came w/ 2 sets of shims - one narrow pair & one wide. So I installed the wide ones & they worked pretty well. Then I thought about it a bit & thought about installing both of them. I cut the locating nobble off the narrow pair & glued them onto the other pair. They seem to work pretty well.

But now that the new Dura Ace routes under the tape AND has reach adjustment I might have to try them out . . .