Modification for 'Short Reach' Campy brake levers

[Kevin]

I tried this tip and it works for the most part, ceratinly much easier to ride in the drops during a crit and keep the brakes handy. However my inside shift lever is now often hanging up on the brake lever after a downshift. The shift lever has a little rubber nub (Chorus, alloy, circa ~2000) that prevents the shift lever and the brake lever from vibrating against each other. Should I just remove the little rubber nub?

What about another solution, namely adjusting the angle with which the whole ergo shifter rests against the front of the handlebar? You position of the shifter is determined by how the bar fits in the tubular hole formed between the plastic body of the shifter and the aluminum sleeve used to tighten around the bar. What if you added a 2-3mm shim on the top of the plastic body where it contacts the bar. This would rotate the whole lever body forward, thereby bringing the brake levers closer to the bar.

[wheelio]

In addition to not liking "anatomic" bars in general, I've found them to be not "Ergo friendly." I have them on the Masi and they're going to be changed when it comes time to replace the cables and housing.

We set up a customer's Centaur equipped bike with the new "variable radius" Bontrager Race Lite bar. It brought the levers a good 2cm closer to the "hooks", but kept that nice flat bar top transition to the hoods.

Interesting to note that, along with Bontrager, FSA and others are going back to a non-anatomic bend on their new offerings. I still love my old Cinelli 66 bend on the 8 speeder.

[wheelio]

Not to be picky, but I did not imply that manufacturers were discontinuing anatomic bars. By saying "going back", I was inferring that they were looking at what worked in the past for their "new offerings."

What is different, however, is the reach. The new Bontragers and FSA's have a much shorter reach than, let's say, Cinelli 64's and 66's. I believe this is to accommodate those enormous hoods from that other component manufacturer.