I also have gone back to drops after trying most of everthing else, this for comfort reasons. Again, horses for courses, but I too find myself going into the hooks for comfort or for more power without more exertion.
As to JimG's note: a proper saddle position will have your torso cantilevering your weight over the bars so that less falls on your arms, shoulders and hands. This cantilevering effect is produced by having your butt back and calling into play those strong back (and perhaps other) torso muscles. I can ride in the hooks with top of bar 2" below saddle for half an hour easily -- well, let's say 20 minutes easily, since after that I start getting a numbness in the heel of my left palm, tho' with hand movement I can go longer. No problem with the right hand. (The left palm heel is exactly what gave me pain with straight bars, tourist bars, M-bars and AT4s and the like, and this after just a few minutes.) Anyway, as with saddles, bars and placements are very personal. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:39 AM, MichaelH <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? > > -- Patrick Moore Albuquerque, NM For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW at resumespecialt...@gmail.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.
