Thanks for the photos, Shoji. Also, you're killing it with that coordinated red/grey tape on the moustache bars
On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 7:50:27 AM UTC-7, Shoji Takahashi wrote: > > I've set up my Hunqapillar with all of 'em: > Noodles (48cm, 10-cm stem) > Albatross (12-cm stem) > Bullmoose > Moustache (7-cm stem) > > I use cable splitters for quick changes of handlebars. Takes ~10 min to > swap from one to another. (Takashi, who's also on this group with a > Hunqapillar, is also a bar swapper. I think he uses down-tube shifters, > which would vastly simplify swapping.) > > I chose a smaller Hunqapillar (with my PBH, the recommendation is 48 or > 51-- I went with 48), as I wanted a drop-bar. Albatross is fine on it, but > I could probably use a longer stem. Bullmoose is good, but I think the head > tube is higher than I want. > > My favorites are moustache and noodles for this bike. But I swap bars > somewhat regularly, because it's almost like having 4 different bikes. > > Some pics of the different set ups: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/stakx/sets/72157644332271299 > > Happy riding! > Shoji > > > > On Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 5:38:03 PM UTC-4, drew wrote: >> >> my hunq had albatross bars and a 11cm tallux for most of it's life. for >> most normal day riding, i was very happy with that even though i mostly >> found my hands sliding forward to the curves, kinda sitting on top of the >> brake clamps. on a 1.5 week tour, this started to become quite >> uncomfortable. separately, i couldnt find a comfortable place for my hands >> on long, steep climbs. they wanted to go to the front of the bar, but the >> downslope made that feel weird. anyway, i got home, got curious, and put >> on an albastache with 8cm dirt drop stem. so far so good. haven't done any >> multi day rides yet where they will truly reveal themselves, but the >> albastache are great/comfortable/uprightish with still some forward lean >> capability for the 10 mile rides ive been doing. >> >> also, ill come out and say that i think mustache style bars look great, >> and ill admit that i kept the albatross cockpit fully intact for >> re-plugging in, because it truly was an almost always perfect set up that >> im not yet fully convinced i have improved on. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
