Help me! Road Bike Part Grades for Dummies

[melissam]

wait, so is shimano making new brifters that don't have two cables coming out of the tops of them (bug antennae effect) ?

p.s. ditto on the inefficient motor thing, but, (according to my DH-- so this may be a "DH fun fact") something like 80% of the work you do biking is fighting wind resistance.

Actually the new Shimano *electronic* Dura-Ace that is being tested in the Pro Tour has very tidy cables all routed under the bar tape. That might be what MelissaM is talking about, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that technology to trickle down to us mortals any time soon. There are some video reviews of it around the web. Fabian Wegmann rode it in the Tour of California. It looks very sweet...

Kudos to rij73 for making some sense of what I was talking about -- sometimes it's hard for me to know what I'm talking about, never mind a third party.

I thought I'd read somewhere that Shimano's new brifters were going to change to the undertape/aero cable routing for brakes and derailleurs. Of course, now I can't remember my source, and a quick search on Google and the Shimano site didn't give me much help.

I probably saw a reference to the electronic Dura Ace that rij73 mentioned and mistakenly thought they were doing it for all of their new stuff.

Sorry for the confusion, back to your regularly scheduled discussion...

-- Melissa

[smilingcat]

Hi Idealmuse,

you did better with the Fara than Sizzano. Unless you are experienced rider, a bike with bull horn and clip ons (Sizzano) are going to be harder to steer and shift at the same time. You'll be much happier with the drop bar.

And I don't think you will be planning on racing TTs anytime soon. Also in many of the organized rides "fun rides" "fund raising rides" like MS150 and TNT rides, I don't think they allow bikes with clip-ons. It can be seen as showing up in bad form. Drop bar is definitly much better.

smilingcat