Thank you for your reply Patrick. You make the albastache sound mighty inviting as does your description of the CDT. Perhaps I'll ride the Divide down and the CDT back. ;) I also enjoyed your 5-year review; makes me wanna buy my Hunqa all over again. Rather, I'll just go for a ride!
Cheers, John On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 8:02:34 PM UTC+8, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > The Great Divide Mountain Bike Trail is nearly all dirt roads. I've ridden > 200 miles of the Colorado section, and had Albatross bars on my Hunqapillar > at the time. Albatross will be just fine. If you love them, stick with them. > > I switched to the new Moustache Bar (AKA Albastache) and love them. I much > prefer them on all rides, especially single track. Upright option, yet > brakes at the curves for technical descents and aggressive climbs. For the > riding I do, the new Moustache is a great do-everything bar. I ride my > Hunqapillar on asphalt and dirt to get to the singletrack, and bikepacking > often involves connecting trails via roads. (I love it on my QB too, and > that includes all day road riding). Switching from Albatross does require > roadie brake levers and shift mounts, so be aware of that. > > If you're wanting a long trail that has a greater percentage single track, > consider: Continental Divide Trail or Colorado Trail. It will be slower > going, you will have to take the MTB routes around the Wilderness Areas, > but you'll also get things like some of the pictures here (The last five > show the CDT, as do the ones in obvious rock gardens): > http://thegrid.ai/withabandon/the-mad-genious-of-rivendells-hunqapillar/ > > With abandon, > Patrick > > On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 8:50:43 PM UTC-7, John Rinker wrote: >> >> Planning to ride my Hunq along the Great Divide late Summer into Fall. My >> current set-up has the albatross bar, but I'm looking to switch them out >> for either Bosco bullmoose or bullmoose. I don't have experience with >> either, but am looking for something that will handle well on rough trail. >> One issue I have with the albas when taking bigger hits on singletrack is >> their tendency to drop due to the leverage of my hands. I figure either of >> the bullmoose bars will eradicate this. Any thoughts appreciated. >> >> Cheers, John >> > -- 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.
