I have an Ortlieb Ultimate 3 bar bag and Sora STI.When the bar bag is fitted and I come to flick the brake levers to change gear, the levers are prevented from moving to their full extent as the bar bag is in the way.On the Ortlieb site is a ' Mounting set for enlargement of the Ultimate 3 fixing system ' which look just the job for moving the bag forwards to clear the levers.has anyone used these devices or are there any other ways that anyone has used to get round the problem.
They do indeed and if you have 8 speed Sora you can just swap them for a modern 10 speed ergo shifter and you are done. No need to change anything else since modern 10 speed campag ergos pull the same amount of cable per click as the old shimano 8 speed. Of course you have two redundant clicks, but once you've adjusted the set screws you'll never know they are there.
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Sam Salt said:
the levers are prevented from moving to their full extent as the bar bag is in the way.
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are there any other ways that anyone has used to get round the problem.
Campag Ergos.
You know they make sense.
John
I could understand this if the issue were the usual one of wedging a bag between Shimano's flying buttress shifter cables, but that's not what the OP said. Or even if the problem were that the bag somehow blocks the arc of the return (inside)lever on "standard" STI, but not the main lever. But Sora has a thumb-button return (like ERGO).
So why do we think an ERGO brifter would work any better? Does the ERGO lever use a smaller arc for each click?
Sounds like wider HBars are in order. A pain to swap out, but given how far "up and out" most modern barbags are carried, I'd hate to push one any further out front.
