Salsa Poco vs. Short-n-Shallow

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I guess it really depends on why you can't reach the levers.

Are your hands lined up with the brake lever when you are in the drops? But you still can't get your fingers around the levers, like your fingers just aren't long enough? That might be a case for closer/shimmed brakes, or a bar with a different shaped ergo bump or stepped bend to put your hand closer.



Are your hands too far away from the brake lever when you are in the drops? Like you have to move your entire hand to get to a spot on the bar where you can wrap your fingers around the brake lever? That might be a case for a short drop bar or a bar with a different ergo bump for hand placement. Especially if moving the levers so they are accessible from the drops will mess with how you ride on the tops.



(The first picture is me faking short fingers on my nice, close shimano brake-only levers. The second picture is me exaggerating slightly how my Bell Lap drops are too low for me to just reach out and grab my nice close Shimano brake-only levers. I have very long fingers, but small hands. This is the problem I'm having, and I think a shallower-drop would be nice and would lift my hands back up into line with my levers. I should've posted a pic of my hand and my S-n-S bars... sorry.)