I did not love the hood shape of the TRPs--that can be pretty personal--though I would second or third the thoughts on the quality. The quick release is really nice and the lever feel is good and springy. The hoods also have a softer feel than some. They may pair better with the Noodle (shortish reach bar) than the Gran Compes due to being roomier and longer reach.
I have settled on the extremely ugly Sram S500. On Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 8:36:38 PM UTC-5 Benz Ouyang, Sunnyvale, CA wrote: > On Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 12:17:18 PM UTC-7 Jeffrey Arita wrote: > >> >> Given your choices above, my wife and I use TRP RRLs on the two tandems >> and a bunch of singles which have drop bars. Nice ergo feel plus they have >> the nice brake cable release mechanism - useful for wide-ish tires. >> >> I recently sold a set of Gran Compe 202s on iBobs. They were ok but we >> prefer the RRLs. >> > > I'll second the TRP RRLs. They feel good on the hoods, and the hood angle > (and to a certain extent the brake reach) is adjustable via a plastic > spacer. As Jeff said, the built-in quick release à la Campagnolo is really > nice. Build quality of the TRPs are top-notch, with fairly tight tolerances > and no weird sounds when riding over rough chip seal. Finally, they're one > of the few modern levers that one can get with gum/natural rubber colored > hoods. > > A close second is the Cane Creek SCR-5 levers. They're essentially copies > of the Campagnolo Gen 2 Ergopower levers (except without the shifting guts, > obviously), so if you like those, you'll like the SCR-5. The SCR-5 also > comes in a compact model, aptly named SCR-5C, with shorter reach for riders > with smaller hands; that variant is quite hard to find. Unfortunately, Cane > Creek discontinued the gum colored hoods. > > > -- 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/cb120922-2a4c-4b41-ae50-0545cb8aca84n%40googlegroups.com.
