The yeah, a lot of bars get called "north road" which was the raleigh name for that style if i remember correctly.
The ones i used were the ones that Harris sells: http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/handlebars/index.html (you have to scroll down to the "north road" bars). I used them mounted with rise but they had plenty of forward length for cruising. On Sep 6, 10:54 am, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 6, 1:31 pm, Johnny Alien <johnnyal...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > Excellent info!! So the Northroad handlebar will fit mountain levers > > and look at least similar. Anyone use these bars? > > Johnny , Those bars you linked to are what Riv calls Albatross > bars .... 56cm. CroMoly. Ben's often leaves off part of the official > Nitto item number, hence they just call it a B-352 instead of the > B-352EX. They confuse the issue by showing them updside down. You can > use them like that of course, but most don't want the bigger drop. > > For reference, the original 25.4mm clamp Moustache bars back in the B- > stone days did take mtb levers, the newer ones since do not. Now both > the 25.4 and 26.0 versions take road levers. > > They accept bar end shifters and brake levers. Here's how I set up > mine w/thumbshifters and bar end brake levers. This way I get the > whole bar to use, instead of just a tiny hand grip part. The curved > part is great for climbing out of the saddle and when you want to go > more > aero.http://www.flickr.com/photos/11316...@n04/3645057344/sizes/l/in/set-7... -- 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.
