Thanks for the report on these. I had been thinking about giving them a try but have had a need to yet. I have Albatross on my Sam and Billie's on my Appaloosa. I had the Billie's set up with thumb shifters which I recently took off. I found that when the bike was shifted into a low gear the shift lever took away comfortable hand positions because of how the lever would stick into my wrist. I am going to switch to bar ends which will allow for me to take better advantage of the multiple hand positions the Billie's offer. I think the Choco's look great on your Frank Jones Sr. Well done!
On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 4:49:06 PM UTC-5, dstein wrote: > > I recently swapped out the Alabastache bars on my Frank Jones Sr. for > Choco's. I had been wanting to try them since they came out. I've had > Albastross bars and could never get into them, part of it was probably bike > and setup related, but it was really only a one hand position bar. I loved > the Albastache bars on a previous Hunqapillar as it offered the perfect > amount of uprightedness, but it is ultimately an aggressive position type > bar, more in line with drop bars. > > On a whim I bought some Choco's and new brake levers with some paddle > shifters and swapped it out. Been on two rides (5 miles up, 5 miles down) > and they're (mostly) great. They give three distinct hand positions: bar > ends on the grips, right above the grips (toward the bend but not quite on > the bend) which is where I spent almost all my time climbing, and then the > bend which is pretty close to what you would get for a position similar to > riding the brake hoods on a drop bar (minus brake lever access, so be > careful). I think part of this is because it's a single speed and there's > no shifters in the way, maybe shifters would take away one of the > positions? But it reminds me a lot of my Jones loop bars on my Jones bike, > different bar with more reach back, but 3 very usable hand positions. The > only downside is I'm holding on to the bar ends w/ easy brake lever access > going downhill, and it makes the bike pretty twitchy. > -- 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.
