If you do go this route, save yourself a lot of trouble and just grind down the inside edge of the headset locknut and do not touch the stem. I just put a Nitto Technomic on my Motobecane Grand Jubilee and it worked beautifully. In your case, it would also justify putting a nicer stem on a not-so-nice bike because you could easily swap the stem on a different bike if you got rid of it. Since the French bars have a different diameter, you are going to have to either jam the bars into the stem or just replace both. I found on my Grand Jubilee that the stem length was much too short anyway and the bars were far too narrow, but the frame was exactly my size. When I got on the bike with the stock set-up, the I had the exact same feeling that you are describing and I felt a little squished. I swapped the stock 80mm stem for a 110mm Nitto Technomic and the stock 42mm bars to 45mm Nitto Randonneurs and the problem was easily solved.
I don't know how much this will help, but hopefully it will save you a bit of trouble. Sorry I do not have advise to give as far as moustache bars are concerned, but do not give up hope on drops if you have the right configuration. On Jun 7, 10:13 pm, kent <broken.cy...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is only tangentially Riv related (the tangent is that the > mustache bar in question would be purchased from Rivendell...) > > I was given a slightly ratty, but solid mid 70's Peugeot PX-10 on the > condition that I actually rode it. No problem. For a variety of > reasons I stripped it down and made a fixie out of it (brakeless at > the moment, but not in a quest to be hip, only because I haven't got > the front Mafac cabled back up.) The frame is almost a good fit... my > one difficulty is with the drop bars, which feel too close > (horizontally) and leave too much pressure on my wrists. I've tweaked > the position of both the saddle and the bars and things improved a > little, but the 'too tight' feeling remains. I suspect that mustache > bars would put me far enough forward to be comfortable (and I've > wanted an excuse to buy/try a set for some time anyway.) > > I guess the question then is, am I right or am I just justifying a > shiny new toy? Does a mustache bar let you stretch out more (assuming > a stem of the same proportions?) If I"m going to have to buy a new > stem (ISO bars being too fat for petite French stems) and bar, I'd > like to have a decent assurance that this might work out. =) -- 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.
