I'm not understanding the problem with descents on M-bars (new or old). I find that hands up in the hooks portion is incredibly natural, sort of like a mountain bike bar on descents. Your weight gets pushed onto it and it's really secure and able to grab the brakes. It's the best feature of the M's in my opinion. Midge bars are the only ones that may have a better off-road braking position, and that is at the expense of multiple other positions like the M's have.
Anyway, my $.02 On 9/2/13, Clayton <treefir...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > I used them for a short time on my Atlantis. For moustache bars they are > great. I have major problems with carpal tunnel syndrome and very stiff > wrists and could not use the flat levers. My wrists don't bend that way. > Other than that, I much preferred them to the old mustache bars. With the > new Alabastache, I used the same length stem and had no issues with reach. > I didn't even put them up for sale, and was contacted by someone from the > group who bought them after I posted they were great, but didn't work for > me. I think the same issue you have with descents will be the same with the > > new bars. > > On Sunday, September 1, 2013 5:41:53 PM UTC-7, Mike wrote: >> >> So the Albastache bars have been available for a while. Who's using them >> and how are you liking them. I tried using the original M-bars a few years >> >> ago and didn't really like them. They felt great for climbing but I hated >> >> the way they felt on fast or technical descents. >> >> Also, if you swapped from drop bars to Albastaches did you go with a >> shorter stem? Seems like you could use the same stem as with drop bars >> given the shorter reach and less drop of the Albastaches. I know with the >> >> original M-bars it was suggested to go with a stem 2cm shorter. >> >> Thanks. >> >> --mike >> > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Cheers, David "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - Seth Vidal -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
