When I had a bike with Bosco Bars I had to torque the stem bar connection pretty tight not to get slippage when I stood up to pedal if I was gripping near the end of the bars. There is so much leverage with that bar. On a future Clem build I would seriously consider the Bullmoose stem combo bar. Doug
On Monday, December 2, 2019 at 10:38:24 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: > > One day I must try one. It would be nice to have a bike that is > comfortable for casual rides (I realize that they are comfortable for more > than that, but this is the niche I'd want it for, as well as the > following), taking the dog for a run, hauling groceries, and with knobby > tires for riding bosque trails, and for more technical stuff than I feel > comfortable with using drop bars (I realize too that the Susie and Gus and > so forth are not designed for technical stuff, but an upright position will > be better than inclined over narrow -- and I like narrow and hate wide -- > drop bars). Although I prefer a road bike position for most on and off > pavement riding, there are times when a road position just isn't the most > suitable one. > > In fact, what made me think of Clems and kin was our recent snow. I'd like > a bike I can ride in the stuff on the rare occasions we get enough of it to > make a difference. No bike I own is suitable -- last one was that '96 > Bontrager Race Lite, and that had too high a bb and felt awkwardly "tippy." > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:28 AM Joe Bernard <joer...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Yes, the very long cockpits on these bikes leaves plenty of room for >> popping up and forward to stand. In fact - contrary to the stuff I said >> about bars - I'm fairly certain Leah does her 'standing arms workout' thing >> with hands at the ends of the Boscos. >> >> -- >> 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-owne...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/675b51ec-b3db-438a-a0dc-e4bb717f6e74%40googlegroups.com >> . >> > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum > > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/844ef8c2-b7d3-4632-bd82-31b595b7578f%40googlegroups.com.
