Check out these pics - it looks like one of the local cool guys decided one day to raise his levers to a stupid height, and every last one of these doods has followed.
Funny… I was in my LBS earlier today and noticed a guy getting new carbon bars installed - with his levers way up just like in those pics. I thought it odd, but assumed it was just his preference.
Check out these pics - it looks like one of the local cool guys decided one day to raise his levers to a stupid height, and every last one of these doods has followed.
http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos.php?id=photos/2005/aug05/surrey5day05/surrey5day051/gallery-surrey5day051
Have you been living in a cave?! Look at the pro peloton’s bikes and they’ve all gotten higher like that.
Yeah also depends on whether its STI or Ergos. The new DA STI are longer if recollection is correct and was developed in conjunction with Mr LA, still allows for reach to brakes in the drops and yet have it up higher. Dont see it often with Ergos as they are not that comfortable if inverted up. Actually only time I see Ergos tilted up is on road bikes used with aero bars, ridden by tri heads!
Indeed, they were “new” STI levers. Frankly I was surprised Theo installed them that way - customer request or not! I hadn’t realized that the Shimano levers are now extra long…
That’s the new (2005) DA10 redesign. If you use the standard method of placing the levers so they touch a ruler extended along the flat bottom section of your handlebars, the tops will stick way up like that. It’s made it weird for me. I got a new bike with DA10 this year. I ride almost exclusively on the hoods. I’m long in the torso and have a long reach already. I can ride on the hoods and be about as low as most other folks who ride in the drops. So when I try to fit a bike, The location of the tops of the hoods relative to the nose of the saddle, the bottom bracked, the front hub, etc. is all important to me. DA 10 really screwed everything up. I lived with it their way and ride in a more upright position on that bike. It’s comfy, but I feel a bit like a tourist.
Bob C.
WTF? UP at 12am to post on ST but can’t drag yer sorry ass out of bed to ride withme at 6am? 
That’s the way the Dura Ace are designed to be mounted. That’s the way it’s been here for years, looks funny at first but feels great. I’m a campy dude, so I’m mounted flat.