On 1/10/2016 8:59 AM, David Scheidt wrote:
jbeattie wrote:
:On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 5:39:37 PM UTC-8, Doug Landau wrote:
: On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 5:04:35 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
: On 1/9/2016 3:00 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
: On Friday, January 8, 2016 at 8:19:03 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
: On 1/8/2016 4:24 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
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: Sheldon said that Sora were the best aero levers ever made, but I can't find the post and don't remember why he thought that was the case.
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: Anybody have any?
:
: One member of my extended family has them. I've ridden his bike. They
: work fine, but his bike is low-mileage, if you get my drift.
:
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: - Frank Krygowski
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: Are they aero levers that are shaped like brifters?
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: They are brifters with the tiny thumb button protruding from the side,
: instead of the extra lever in line with the brake lever. I don't know if
: you'd call them "aero," since the cable comes out horizontally toward
: the center of the bike.
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: I'm working by memory here. I should be visiting in a few days, and I
: can try to remember to take a look. It's on a lower end Cannondale
: from, oh, maybe 2005 or so.
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: - Frank Krygowski
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: Not talking about brifters. Talking about aero levers.
:I haven't looked, but IFAIK, Sora road levers were always brifters. Straight aero levers -- you need something like these: http://www.amazon.com/Shimano-BL-R40.../dp/B000F5LLWG.
I think they made non-sti sora stuff, for a few years in the early
part of the milenium, when it was still possible to sell a road bike
without sti. Mr Muzi proabably knows for sure. I also have an
inkling that Sora was originally called RSX, and I'm more confident
there were non-sti rsx bikes.
Yes, I'm with Mr Scheidt mostly.
Aero levers are still current[1], used with bar-cons on
loaded touring bikes for example. Probably misremembered as
'Sora' although at that BL-4-something[2] quality level. The
design hasn't changed much since the BL-A450, BL-A451 era.
Whether as a 'non-group' component or as a previous model
name like RSX you're still talking about a Sora level part
so although it's technically not correct we understand the
meaning.
Note to Frank: the Sora STi have brake controls under the
tape, only gear cables flap in the breeze.
[1] Currently non-group items BL-R400 and BL-R600. The
BL-500 is a flat-bar lever.
[4] 4-series has been Exage and RSX and Sora besides 'non-group'
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