yeah, what they said. Lower the bars and see if that helps. If you need the bars that high to be comfy, I think wiiiiiiiiiide is the way to go, probably some sort of really wide flat or swept bars. It looks like you have some wide drop bars on there already, but some of the flared drops are really wide. Bull meese bars may be the ticket as well.
Wide bars calm down your steering input and response and are good when you have less weight up front. I still would drop the bars as far as that stem would let you first, if that helped I would go ahead and find a shorter stem. It looks like there is a fair bit of reach on the stem as well, if you drop the bars a bunch you may need a shorter reach stem. tarik On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Doug Van Cleve <dvancl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Pretty much what I was thinking as well. Even if it calls for a couple cms > shorter stem to keep the reach similar, try lowering the bars a fair amount > and see how it feels. Seems to me like that high stem is rotating > everything back, which lightens up the front end and presumably makes it > more sensitive to input... > > Doug > > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Aaron Thomas <aaron.a.tho...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> This may run contrary to the general approach adopted by many on this >> list, but I'd recommend lowering the bars a lot -- so that they're >> level to the saddle height or perhaps even just below. >> >> The front end of my Bleriot felt a little floppy when I had the bars >> well above saddle height. When I lowered the bars to about 1 cm below >> saddle height, all problems were solved. >> >> On Mar 30, 8:28 pm, andrew hill <neurod...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > yeah - some linkage: >> > >> > >> > http://salamander.net/stage/Bleriot/IMG_1925.jpghttp://salamander.net/stage/Bleriot/IMG_1926.jpg >> > >> > -a >> > >> > On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:01 PM, rcnute wrote: >> > >> > > Do you have a picture of your existing set-up? >> > >> > > Ryan >> > >> > > On Mar 30, 7:37 pm, andrew hill <neurod...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> i'm still puzzling over this Bleriot .. wondering if a dirt drop >> > >> stem will calm the twitchy front end down, versus the Technomic dlxe >> > >> that is >> > >> on there now, while keeping the noodle bars. maybe improve the handling >> > >> with a closer bar position a bit? >> > >> > >> am i mad to think so? :) >> > >> > >> best, >> > >> andrew > > -- > 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. > -- Tarik Saleh tas at tariksaleh dot com in los alamos, po box 208, 87544 http://tariksaleh.com all sorts of bikes blog: http://tsaleh.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.
