While investigating the possibility of adding a 3rd brake lever to my aero bars, I came to the realization that my bar-end shifters (Dura Ace) were mounted upside down (ie. the Friction/SIS dials were pointed at each other instead of pointing out).

My bike (Cervelo Dual) came assembled, and that's the way it came. Since it's my first experience with bar-ends, I didn't realize they were upside down.

After looking at bike pics from various sources (race pics, ads, threads on this forum), it appears to be fairly common with Cervelos and Cervelos only (which is very strange, but whatever). Even in most of the magazine ads, the Cervelos have them upside down. I found almost no other bikes besides Cervelos that had the shifters mounted this way.

I flipped them around for a while, but eventually went back to having them upside down. They seem much easier to shift this way - especially the front. I think it's because the front shifter is tough to reach with S-bends (T2+, in my case) since it's pointed mostly (or completely) straight down. It also seems to fit my thumb/fingers better with the concave toward me.

I did like the cleaner look of having the cables running under the bars. But, I still switched for the comfort and performance (ease of shifting).

Anyway, I'm curious if any else has noticed this (the Cervelo thing) or experimented with flipping them around.

Thanks.

Steve

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Steve

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