Quote Originally Posted by Crankin View Post
Nothing is easy with me. This build process has gone super smoothly for DH, but not me.
First, both pairs of new shoes (road and mountain) had issues. The mountain shoes are fixed, now trying to find liners for the road shoes.
The Dura Ace brifters are NOT as "short reach" as my R600 short reach brifters on my Kuota, even though they are adjustable. The R600s are now R700s and are 105 instead of Ultegra... I am getting them, despite the fact I will have a crappier level of shifters. LBS tried to blow this off, but DH measured both and just sent an email. He will bring my road bike up there today, to actually SHOW them. Given the fact that I had to research and find the R600s, I knew this would happen. They seem to be stuck on reach/problems with the shifters; my issue is reach and comfort to the brakes. They also ordered a different short and shallow bar, which now I am not sure I trust.
My expectations are getting lower by the minute.
Just curious...where did you find the R600 brifters? My older Trek 2100 WSD had the R700's on them and I absolutely loved them...SO much easier to shift than my 6700 Ultegra shifters. I would LOVE to swap 'em out, but the ones on my Trek are for a triple and my current bike is a compact double so they're not compatible.

Linda