I'm curious about this. I ride drob bars exclusively, and love the noodles. I can understand someone finding the hand position of a particular bar more to their liking, but one thing that never comes up in these discussions is the relationship between bar comfort and seat comfort. I ride with an early version of the SA saddle and really like it, but one of the advantages of drop bars is that the different hand positions automatically repositions my touche and therby relieves one pressure point for another. So I often ride on the drops for 5 minutes or so (my commute like d2mini's is 15 miles each way) just to give my buns some variety. How do you do that on upright bars with a single hand position?
Michael On Jul 15, 5:47 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.
