Hey, Andrew. Yeah, I've had the body-parts-and-far-too-close-vehicles view in a setup I had on a different bike. Perhaps using the ling-arm CycleStar mirror will help. I've grown accustomed to its jiggly-ness.
I love seeing the bullmoose bars. Your pic reminds me that there is a fourth obvious cockpit arrangement I need to consider. More thumbies, more love levers, more shifters, more grips. These are all fine things. Though I won't need a new stem, i expect I'll need a stem riser. The forward extension on the bullmoose bars is so great that I can't imagine having their height limited by their too-short-for-my-purposes quill. I don't want to ride any more hunched-over than I do on my maxed-out dirt drop 100 / moustache combination. Riding with those bullmoose bars must be an Empowering Experience! Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean On Aug 11, 2010, at 4:39 PM, andrew hill <neurod...@gmail.com> wrote: > i put the Rivendell sold german mirror on my bullmoose bars with the stalk > down: > http://salamander.net/stage/Sam_cockpit.jpg > > i have the same mirror on an embullmoosed Bombadil like this too, but even > more rotated down/back than on the Sam (on the Sam the angle of the thumbies > prevents me from rotating the mirror stalk further down before the housings > bump) > > it works pretty well on both, although when i hop off/on the seat/pedals at > lights, etc (esp on the Sam), i sometimes knee the mirror up - but it just > rotates on the bar, and i slap it back down. > > not sure if the m-bars will provide as easy a mounting point even > down-wards.. the issue i found with that direction is you need to get pretty > far out laterally before it works. maybe just beyond where your hand would > go in the end-grip position? even on the curve, e.g. next to the brake hood, > might work, but it would prob have to be on the outside. e.g. this is too > close to the frame to work perfectly with this particular mirror: > http://salamander.net/stage/woodandcork.jpg and it shows mostly body and > quickly-magnified cars right when they rush by. > > i've got some m-bars and another "german mirror" that i'm going to mount up > into an alternate cockpit.. but i think i'm going to put them on a > yet-to-be-determined frame. :) > > would love to see pics of all your different cockpit setups when you have em > working. > > cheers, > andrew > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
