Hey Juan Pablo, that's a nice bike! While road levers are nominally for bigger bars, they use a band clamp that will snug down tight enough on 22.2. I did it with Tiagra levers on a flipped Albatross once and it worked ok, you just gotta get them far enough around the curve for the brake lever to work without bottoming out on the bars. Shifting the paddles that way is kinda weird but you get used to it. Give it a try!
Joe Bernard On Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 6:13:11 PM UTC-8 jpoy...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I'm Juan Pablo, from Chile (pardon my not-so-perfect English)... > I'm riding an old road bike made by Samuel del Valle (a Chilean artisan > that was quite renowned back in the day, even by E. Colnago), and the build > consists of this old Reynolds lugged frameset, and every other component in > the bike is modern (105 groupset and the like). > > [image: postmodern-samuel-del-valle-1987-33224_1.jpg] > > At this moment, I'm suffering the length of the reach in my hands and > never ever find myself riding in the drops, so I'm planning to get a > shorter stem and an albatross-like handlebar; I want to keep everything > else. > > Locally I only find the soma sparrow; I find it quite comfortable, but the > lever-area is 22.2. I found some encouraging experiences online about > installing STI (or road) handles in sparrows, both in rideability and > feasibility. But I want to get as much advice as I can.. Any tips or > insights would be much appreciated, especially about what to use as a shim > to keep everything firm and tight. > > Thanks!!! > JP > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3a539256-ea27-470f-95c6-0d9dc6b1fa66n%40googlegroups.com.
