As close to naked as I dare! Grin. Hunqapillar: Brake levers, thumb shifter for rear DR. https://www.flickr.com/photos/deaconpatrick/29288700126/in/dateposted-public/
Quickbeam: Brake levers https://www.flickr.com/photos/deaconpatrick/29010417892/in/dateposted-public/ I have a battery powered IQ light that I occasionally pop on there, but only rarely. I've kept the Hunqapillar's bars unwrapped as I experimented with the brake lever placement, and also again testing if I like the bars naked. I do, until I sweat. Climbing steep hills without cotton tape isn't fun when sweating on the bars. Interestingly, round here that's mostly an issue Spring and Fall (keep in mind, summer is a 30 day period that happens randomly between mid-June and mid-August and winter is October through April, Autumn and Spring happening in the fringe calidoscope of days) because in Summer the temp is high (for here) but the humidity is low because the temp is high, so moisture management is not an issue. However, now, with cooler temps and with stormy days we often have 70-100% humidity, in the 40-60˚F range, so nothing evaporates. Bars are soon getting the cotton tape (Grey on both this time round). I've mentioned my aversion to cockpit gadgets like GPS/computers. The simplicity of the ride is wondrous. On today's ride, I paid zero attention to time or distance, though I know I rode fairly fast as I was a gear higher than often. I love that kind of "ride by feel," and do it even when I'm exploring new territory (though at this point I basically know what's in my day ride range quite well, so there is no new territory without either getting driven somewhere or bikepacking from home.). With abandon, Patrick On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 6:37:23 PM UTC-6, Eric Norris wrote: > > My Riv Road: Steel, leather, friction shifting ... and a bunch of > electronic gear. Even the headlights are electronic. > > What's in *your* cockpit? > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
