The cables should run either on the front side of the bar or on the back side of the bar. NOT on the top of the bar where you rest your weight. Lots of bars even come with grooves front/back to house the cables under the tape.
The hoods can pretty much go where you want them. But they SHOULD be even! (choose the one you like, and tell the LBS to make the other match it?)
I'd take it back, and make the LBS do it over again right.
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09-09-2007, 09:10 AM #1
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09-09-2007, 09:25 AM #2
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When I had the shift/brake levers and bars replaced on my road bike, the shop had me ride it around a little (inside the shop...w00t! for bike shops in huge open loft spaces) to get the position of them right before they put new tape on. I'd take the bike back and ask them to experiment with it a bit before they re-tape it.
(And I definitely wouldn't pay extra, since they couldn't even manage to get them placed evenly--let alone in the right position for *you*--the first time. But I'm a bit of a butthead like that.)
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