You all have not cleared it up AT ALL, but I got a bunch of ideas to ponder. Jeremy - I love the bar you mentioned and will look into it. I had originally tried a dirt drop when I first got the bike, but the quill was too long for the short head tube. I looked into the Kalloy/Sunlite versions, but heard they are not good for twisting and turning drop bars into them. Also, I had never heard of travel agents and educated myself on those. Would let me use the drop levers I have now. Hmmmmmm Joe and Ryan... you have me all over our local CL, which of course is one of my favorite activities. What's one more kids bike when you have three kids and I think my wife could ride the Clem more than she does. Joe - brifters? Have you gone off of your Rivendell rocker??? I'm kidding of course... maybe he would dig those, but he has survived on the 1x8 stem mounted friction shifter so far, I think we could stick with that theme. Sky - I love the lil' LHT. At our LBS the other day he rode the little flat bar cross check 1x, which I loved.. mostly because it is quite similar to his Clem 1x8! He did ride a 46 All City single speed cross bike which was cool, though out of our price range. What was off with the 520 fit?
Continuing to ponder with one month until Christmas, Edwin On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 9:50:04 AM UTC-6, Edwin W wrote: > > I got a little Clem for my kids last year when they came out. It is a > great bike. My oldest son has been riding it BUT has just been so enamored > by drop bars on bikes whenever he sees them. He does not QUITE appreciate > how cool his bob-ish setup on the Clem is, no matter how many times the > bike shop staff or I tell him! > Right now we have VO tourist bars > <http://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/vo-tourist-handlebar-22-2-dia.html> > on > an 80mm stem. > Question - if I want to have him try drop bars should I: > > Put some drops on the Clem, with a dirt drop style or shorter stem > > or is it too long in the top tube and not practical and not what it was > designed for and: > > Get a small used drop bar bike off of CL and let him play around with that? > > Thoughts from this smart group?? > > > Edwin > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
