Yes, all three major brands offer hidden cable routing. Shimano was the holdout; they designed their system to avoid Campagnolo's patents, so they kept the east-west cable exit through 9-speed. However, some have criticized Shimano's 10-speed brifters for wearing through cables rapidly (due to the 90-degree bend that's now inside the shifter body). Apparently Shimano changed the shift ratio for 11-speed road to pull less cable per click, in order to help minimize this problem (and probably other smart fixes inside the shifter body), but critics say it's still an issue. I don't own any bikes with Shimano brifters, so I have no dog in the fight. Just passing along shop talk.
I'm happy with 10-speed SRAM Double-click shifters; I have them on my plastic (CF) cyclocross/gravel bike. For SRAM 10-speed only, their MTB rear derailleurs are compatible with their road shifters. This makes it easy to mix wide-range cassettes and drop bars; most of SRAM's 10-speed MTB RDs can accept a 42t cog with simply a longer B-screw. You can also mix Shimano's 10-speed road shifters with their 9-speed RDs to fit wide-range cassettes, but this doesn't avoid the 10-speed cable wear issue, and Shimano's 9s RDs max out at a 36t cog. I owned a Roadeo for a short while, and I put vintage 90s Sachs (Campagnolo) Ergopower brifters on it. It was fun to ride, but I stray off pavement way too much to own a fancy road bike. My 650b-converted Riv Road Standard is "roadie" enough for me. On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 1:33 AM, lum gim fong <john11.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > ain’t they got brifters now that have the shifter cables running under > bartape so ye can use a front bag now? > > -- > 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
