Personally I can't handle more than a couple of hours with upright bars before the lack of hand positions causes things to stiffen up. I tried Moustache bars for a while but didn't care for the wrist twist. So back to drops. OTH, my wife dis-likes drops and does up to 50 miles on flat bars on her road bike and is perfectly comfortable. Among my touring buds (mostly crusty old geezers set in their ways) we have a guy who recently changed to flats on his Trek 520 and still uses the stock bars on his converted MTB which he uses for much of his touring. A couple of guys like the "trekking bars" for the multiple hand positions coupled with being able to sit upright. If you look around camp at cycle touring bikes, my rough guess is 2/3 drop bars and 1/3 "other". It's really a personal comfort and bike control issue with no clear cut answer.
dougP On Dec 19, 9:54 am, b hamon <periwinkle...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Just curious how many Riv riders do their longer-distance (40+ miles) with > upright handlebars? And among these, how many have only upright bars on their > bikes? > Beth > > http://bikelovejones.livejournal.com > > http://veloquent.blogspot.com -- 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-bu...@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.
