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That is an absolutely beautiful colour Catrin! Some crisp white accessories will look great on that

Re the brakes - on my vintage road bike, I found adjusting the angle of the bars allowed be to reach the brakes comfortably in the drops (where you get much better braking). If I tilted the bars up higher so it was more cofortable in the hoods I couldn't reach quite as well in the drops. It seems to be a bit of a trade of, but it allows you to adjust for your preferred riding position.

Play around with the up/down angle and see what suits.

Personally I don't use the hoods much cause the braking is a bit soft there. Looking forward to fitting the cross/top bar levers on my new Cross Check though - they sound like a huge improvement on the old-style top levers (which my LBS called "suicide levers"!)

I am using blue accessories, along with a little white and black :rolleyes: I found some delightful blue/black bar tape to use and my LBS will have it on my bike before they return it to me.

As it turned out the brake levers were the wrong ones, they were for a much larger bike and were NOT compact at all as they were supposed to be, and the bars that came with my bike were too wide for me - so both are being replaced :D I hope to bring him home this weekend and go try riding him again!

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Originally Posted by Catrin

As it turned out the brake levers were the wrong ones, they were for a much larger bike and were NOT compact at all as they were supposed to be, and the bars that came with my bike were too wide for me - so both are being replaced :D I hope to bring him home this weekend and go try riding him again!

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Beautiful bike, Catrin.

About the brake levers, my hands are small and on some of my bikes, I've felt uncomfortable applying the brakes. On my Specialized Ruby, the LBS put shims in the levers, which helped tremendously. However, that's not an option on some of my other bikes' levers. On my single speed Scattante, I had in-line brakes added, which was a good fix. If you're still having problems reaching the brakes properly, ask about shims.

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Originally Posted by kmehrzad

Beautiful bike, Catrin.

About the brake levers, my hands are small and on some of my bikes, I've felt uncomfortable applying the brakes. On my Specialized Ruby, the LBS put shims in the levers, which helped tremendously. However, that's not an option on some of my other bikes' levers. On my single speed Scattante, I had in-line brakes added, which was a good fix. If you're still having problems reaching the brakes properly, ask about shims.

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Thanks - though I am hoping that having the right size levers will take care of the problem :) My fitter (a very tall/large man) said that the levers on my LHT would have been hard for HIM - which was the double whammy for my hands since the bars were also too wide - so that made me feel better.

Catrin- Congrats on your new LHT. What an awsome set of wheels. I'm sure you'll have a great time once you get all of the bugs worked out of it. Happy riding.

Red Rock

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Originally Posted by Red Rock

Catrin- Congrats on your new LHT. What an awsome set of wheels. I'm sure you'll have a great time once you get all of the bugs worked out of it. Happy riding.

Red Rock

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I am sure I will...though I don't know when he gets to come home. They just got the final parts this morning and now it is a question of my fitter having time to install the parts - hopefully I get it this weekend. The important part is that they install things properly and hopefully that problem is solved :cool:

However, that gives me more time to take Stella to the country roads this afternoon - and that is going to be fun :D