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My current bike happens to have 10-speed 105 double (from 2008) STI shifters. I have a 7 year old bike with 9-speed 105 triple STI shifters. I've always felt the shifting and braking (especially the braking) was better on the old bike. Today, I realized that, for the braking anyway, the reason the old bike feels better is the brake levers move very easily before the pads hit the rim. On the newer bike, the force required to move the levers is several times greater. Again, this is all before the pads contact the rim.
Is this due to the cable housing/brake cables, the STI shifters, or the brake calipers? Both bikes have their original cables, and both bikes have always behaved the way they behave now (it's not like the cables on one of them got bad suddenly).
Thanks.
Is this due to the cable housing/brake cables, the STI shifters, or the brake calipers? Both bikes have their original cables, and both bikes have always behaved the way they behave now (it's not like the cables on one of them got bad suddenly).
Thanks.