Thanks for the write-up on all the different bars and how you use them. Being a stout-but-active middle-aged man myself I found it all quite interesting. I only have m-bars on my Quickbeam and am quite pleased with them but next year I'm thinking about a bike with derailleurs and your footwork will aid greatly in my choice of bars.
Aloha! On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Thomas Lynn Skean < thomaslynnsk...@comcast.net> wrote: > Hi, all! > > (wordy... skip to the link for the main content) > > For about a year before I got my Hillborne, I was a happy Albatross > bar cyclist. I remain a happy Albatross bar cyclist. But in my youth I > rode drop bars and liked them. Later I had also ridden mountain-bike-y > bars and liked them. Having ridden almost daily for a couple of years > now, I've gone from being a total couch-potato huffing-puffing fat guy > to being an energetic less-fat able-bodied guy. Along the way I have > discovered that almost all of my ideas about "discomfort" when cycling > were really reflecting my utter lack of general fitness. Growing more > fit made me realize I could sit this way and move that way and bend > the other way, without causing pain or feeling at risk. That is, I > started feeling even *more* comfortable on my bike, more loose and > more "able". And started thinking "you know, it wouldn't be so bad to > stretch out here, lean there, tuck in more". I began to wonder what > riding in positions besides being bolt upright might be like. And now > that I had a Hillborne frameset, surely one of the most versatile bike > platforms around, I thought perhaps I could set it up with different > handlebars to accommodate somewhat different riding styles and > positions. > > I had, as a stout-but-active middle-aged man, become bar-curious. > > (sorry...) > > In case you're still reading, below is a link to my web page > describing how I satisfied my curiosity. There you'll find > descriptions, parts lists, some pictures, and general comments. And, I > promise, no puns. > > http://tiny.cc/h1p8s > > I really can't overstate how much I like my Hillborne. For me, its > lengths and angles have felt exactly right from the very first time I > sat on one. Putting parts on it was truly fun. And now it looks > beautiful and rides great. In all its forms. > > Yours, > Thomas Lynn Skean > > -- > 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<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- Robert Harrison rfharri...@gmail.com statrix.statrix.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.
