I changed all my wife's road bikes over from drop bars to flat handlebars with barends. She'd been riding bikes with drop handlebars for more than a quarter of a century, but was never happy with the braking on descents, as her hands were too small to be able to brake from the drops and she found it difficult to apply sufficient brake pressure from the tops, so she would go down hills gently applying the brakes more or less constantly so that she didn't have to brake hard for corners. She's certainly no slower on the climbs with flat bars, and is a lot faster on the descents, because she now has confidence in being able to brake late for corners. Here's a photo of her latest machine with flat bars and barends: http://www.users.on.net/~njpayne/bikestuff/IMG_0549.JPG
On Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:52:12 UTC+10, Jeremy Till wrote: > > Just an update of some recent changes to my Quickbeam, riding the > Appaloosa, and thoughts on upright riding in general. > > > http://handlebarchronicles.blogspot.com/2013/05/spring-2013-becoming-upright.html > > I've talked about a lot of the same things here but wanted to kind of > provide an overview of the stuff I'm thinking about and working on right > now. Comments welcomed! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
