Quote Originally Posted by Sky King View Post
We put the Cane Creek SCR-5 Compact brake levers on most of the bikes for those of us with smaller hands. I hear you about the Selle An-Atomica, I never did get comfortable on that cut out thus the switch to Rivet - Deb left Selle An-Atomica and started Rivet Cycleworks after Tom (the founder of Selle An-Atomica passed away) the cut out is so much friendlier on both my Rivet Pearl and my Rivet Independence.
I feel very silly...turns out the levers were in "release" mode and that's why the reach was so big. They may actually be OK. I feel especially silly given that I volunteer at a bike co-op where we refurbish old bikes, but none of the brake levers I've encountered there have even had the quick release feature (I guess it just goes to show how old the stuff we work with there tends to be). Still kind of embarrassing to have the LBS guy point something like that out (fortunately he's a nice guy and wasn't snotty about it at all, and he did tell me I did a good job wrapping the bar tape with the bar-end shifter cables). As for the saddle, I will play around with it and give it a chance to break in. The other bit of fine-tuning the guy at the shop suggested was that I might benefit from switching to a little shorter stem (the one on the bike now is 100 mm so there is room to go shorter). I'll probably ride for a while the way it is and then decide if I need to do that.