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Re: Drop bar mountain bike recs
Quote from: atlet on April 02, 2025, 01:25:42 PM
@Tijoe tnx. It's comfortable for longer rides?

This one has a lot of sizes: https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_omW8uhf
I've used them on 4 sections of the "Tour Divide",   The LDW (log Drivers's Waltz) and the TATR (The Adirondack Trail Ride) - Over 2000 miles of usage.
I gave up on flat bars because I didn't have enough comfortable hand positions, (even when I added Aero bars for some faster rides.   In my older age, I have wrist issues that make it painful riding over about 30 miles on flat bars. (On bikepacking events, I often ride over 100 miles per day.)  Drop bars are as comfortable, but I can't mount my MTN brake levers and shift pod on drop bars and have to use integrated brake/shift levers and then it takes too much work if I want to switch the bike over to flat bars, or a suspension fork, or rigid carbon fork.
I use a dropper as well, and I like how I can drop the seat, put my hands on the flared drops, and can get a great stable tuck going down really rough steep forest service roads. 


April 02, 2025, 03:04:13 PM 		1
Re: LTwoo rim brake / mechanical 2024 refresh R7 parts arrived yesterday.

Real weights:
Shifters (with inner cable) - 521g
FD (braze-on): 101g
RD: 269g

Other parts I'm using - probably useful for those trying to do a similar budget build:
Riro Racer R9 crankset (50/34, 170mm, with preload cap) - 821g
ZRace R700 brakes - 379g

First impressions of the shifters are very good. The hood rubber has a lovely texture, is just the right softness. The matte finish looks nice (given the price), clicks feel well-defined - I'm seriously impressed at $65 USD for the shifters/FD/RD. The FD and RD are a little more basic (but at about the level I'd expect for the price) - hopefully in the future the package is available with the new FD and RD. RD is a typical mid-cage size of 70mm bolt-to-bolt, same as the mid-cage options for Tiagra 4700 / 105 5800 / Ultegra 6800, so will work fine with at least an 11-32 cassette.

Operation is basically identical to the 2015-current Campagnolo Powershift levers. Single shift down, multiple shifts up. Left shifter operates similarly to Powershift too. 4 positions, one sweep of the shifter will get you all the way up, a light press of the shifter gets you back to position three, and a full press gets you back down to position one. The gradual release minimises chain drops - basically what happens is (starting from position four), pressing down on the lever takes it back to position two, then the release takes it back to position one. This means that the FD doesn't go through its whole travel in one click. Of course, there's absolutely no instructions (and none on their website) so I'll set it up the same way as a Powershift lever and see how we go.

The ergonomics of the left shifter alone make this a much better buy than Sensah, IMO. I would only consider Sensah for a 1x build - my experience with the front shifting on Sensah Phi was pretty terrible. I do wonder what's in Sensah's future as we haven't seen any changes for a while.

Interestingly total price for the 8 main groupset pieces (L/R shifters, FD, RD, crank, brakes, chain, cassette) has come out to about $140 USD - this makes for some really interesting opportunities to refresh old bikes with modern ergonomics and gear range on a budget.

EDIT: And now somehow in playing around with it the indexing mechanism in the right hand lever has broken. Sigh. Good start, L-TWOO....
April 09, 2025, 04:36:21 PM 		1