Dear All
With about a month to go, I am finding that my hands wrists are really playing up when I get to 600km +, so I welcome the idea of of the wrist rest rule. I have tried a few events with them and have stacked them quite high, so loose any aero benefit (I am much lower than when on drops!) but importantly hands 'ok' at the end. However, being a very slow adopter, I am on old fashioned shimano slr brake levers and not sti levers as I used single speed and fixed. This causes a bit of an issue, as these are very short compared to STI levers , by about 4cm.
The sti levers tend to have their levers pointing down so the rubber bits are the most forward part of the brake, and my old fashioned levers have the tip of the levers well forward of the top rubber bits in a intended use normal set up. , not tilted in any funny way.
I have read rule 8 on bikes etc - what is the consensus on where the front of the brake lever is - top handle rubber bits, or tip of lever? If this sounds like overkill, it is because I have long arms and the last 4cm will really count so i don't keep banging elbows and pads etc on knees if i mount further back.
I could of course just buy some second hand STI levers and not use the gear bits I suppose..... but my brake levers are not broke so no need to replace yet!
Any thoughts?