At close to 44 in age, I too have grown less enamored of drop bars. I still have them on one old Motobecane, but I hardly ride it. When I tried mustaches, I was never terribly comfortable. Short distances and around town were fine, but anything longer and my wrists started getting numb. I do still have them on one bike, but I actually flipped them over and installed them upside down, like kind of micro albatross bars.
But the bars I ride the most these days are my Boscoe bars on my atlantis. They make it look like a beach cruiser, but it's amazingly comfortable and there are least three very comfortable positions: very upright at the end of the bars; a bit forward, but still upright on the curve down, and stretched out but comfy next to the stem, roughly the same as the tops on drops. But you do need an insanely long stem with Boscoes. As other have said, try what you have first and experiment with all sorts of heights and angles. There's no orthodoxy when it comes to bars. Peter NYC On Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:56:06 AM UTC-5, Michael wrote: > > Anyone made the switch? > > Seems like on every drop bar bike I dun rid, I just always feel too > stretched out. Even with my 7cm shorty stem and flat ramps. Even knowing I > have the correct frame sizes and have the bar above saddle height now. > On the tops, its always perfect. Hoods - feel too stretched out. > Hooks/drops - fuggettabowdit .5 mile at a time at best, and that takes > discipline. > > I sit up at about 50 degrees when on the hoods. > > So I was thinking of slapping a used moustache I have on the bike and > trying that. > Maybe my 44 year old bones just don't like drops anymore. > Maybe i am being too persnicketty and am looking for absolute comfort, > when there is no such thang on a bike? > > > Thoughts? Anyone made the switch? > > The good part is it'll cost me exactly 0$ and 0 cents to try it. I can use > the tape/levers/shifters from my current setup on the staches. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/fjcqqhtxYsQJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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.
