Its interesting to read that you have never felt slower on your bike. I had the opposite experience on a street converted mountain bike using albatross bars and cork grips. I have not ridden a bike as fast and as good on hills as this combo and I never had sore hands or a sore backside. I use a B66 and my tires are 1.5 inch wide pumped to 80 psi. I like the combo so much I am seriously considering changing my drop bar Atlantis clone bike to Albatross bars or maybe mustache bars. I'd have to get a wider saddle for that so I can't do it now but I'm liking the idea. I want to be able to ride 50 miles with no @$$ pain or numb hands and so far this conversion bike is really better than anything I have been riding and I've tried every Riv trick in the book.
On Mar 8, 8:29 am, Dead Mike <deadmich...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do the same thing with angling the bars slightly downward to give > myself a more natural wrist position. I've never felt slower on my > upright, but I also haven't felt more comfortable, either. > > On Mar 8, 10:14 am, beth h <periwinkle...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > You don't say what you switched from (I'll assume drops). When I > > converted back to uprights from drops on my LongLow I took a friend's > > advice to swap in a longer stem. Albatross and NorthRoad style bars > > put the hand position farther back than expected so this turned out to > > be good advice. My LongLow -- and my Xtracycle, which also uses a > > North Road bar -- both ride VERY comfortably. > > > I angle the ends down slightly, if that helps. > > > Cheers--Beth > > > On Mar 7, 3:42 pm, Angus <angusle...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > > This weekend I changed to Albatross handlebars on my All-Rounder. If > > > anyone has any suggestions/hints/advice I would welcome the input. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
