Hydros are much more powerful than mechanical, and less fucking around with to get them working properly. For flat bars I can't see any reason to go mechanical, cheap shimanos are still 10 x better than high end mechanical. I've got spyres and my wife has BB7s on our commuter cross bikes and they're ok I suppose, but as soon as the 10sp hydro tiagra stuff comes out I'm hoping to switch to that.
Hydros are much more powerful than mechanical, and less fucking around with to get them working properly. For flat bars I can't see any reason to go mechanical, cheap shimanos are still 10 x better than high end mechanical. I've got spyres and my wife has BB7s on our commuter cross bikes and they're ok I suppose, but as soon as the 10sp hydro tiagra stuff comes out I'm hoping to switch to that.