My opinion might not be worth much since I always go for drop bars first, but here goes.
If you use drop bars and find you are always on the tops, most likely your fit setup is wrong. You should be able to comfortably ride on the hoods, easily get to the drops for speed and power, and sometimes visit the tops on a seated climb or to enjoy the view. The counter- intuitive part is when somebody says "I'm reaching too far, I'll slide my seat forward to fix that". That always makes it worse. Try sliding it back, and/or tilting it up. Sheldon Brown has an article describing that better than I would ever hope to. If you've done that and your mind is made up, give new bars a try. I historically have hated straight bars, flat bars, mountain bars, and yet the Rivendell bullmoose bars are fantastic. I emphatically encourage you to try them. The Paul thumbies are great, also. You might need to change out cables and housing, but perhaps not. You'll need new brakelevers and definitely cables and housing for your brakes. Leave the bars wide and you may find that you use 4 or 5 different hand positions. Best of luck. On Jul 15, 2:47 pm, d2mini <d2creat...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, sometimes excessive google searching gives me a headache. :P > > I currently have noodle bars on my homer commuter, 42cm width. My > commute is about 12.5 miles each way and sometimes they can get a bit > uncomfortable. I spend all my time on the tops. > > I also have a specialized mountain bike that I hit the trails with > during lunch. The trails are pretty insane, all tree roots and stuff. > We'll do a good mix of the trails and road, usually about 12 miles > total. > > Between the two bikes, the flat bars of the mtn bike are drastically > more comfortable for me. I think it's two things... the hand/wrist > position and the wide hand position, wider than my shoulders. They > have a rise and a backward sweep, typical of pretty much every > production mtn bike these days. So I'm thinking of fitting that style > bar to my homer and wondering if you guys have any advice on making > the switch as painless as possible, in terms of what parts to use, > what needs to be swapped out, etc. I do really like my bar-end > shifters so if I could use those with thumbies or something that would > be cool. I would also like to fit a pair of retro looking ergo grips, > which i assume only come in mtn bike bar diameters? > > All advice appreciated. > Thanks! -- 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.
