Pretty cool. I've been thinking about swapping the whole stem/
Albatross bars/thumbies/shifters from my older city bike to the
Hillborne. Then, I think I'm going to build the city bike back up as a
racer as one of my friends has finally talked me into joining him and
his girlfriend as the third whe
Mike,
I use bar end shifters (bar cons) with cork grips on Albatross bars.
It works very well.
I had to file a groove in the cork grips to clear the shifter cable
housing (easy to do in cork). I believe RBW demonstrated this in a
video and RR article.
This video shows the grove. I cut mine wit
The bars and stem were a gift from my wife, so I want to still use
those. The Brooks grips were a gift to myself. So, if I picked up some
carved cork grips, I think that would be just fine. We'll see how it
turns out.
On Jan 20, 5:47 am, Thomas Lynn Skean
wrote:
> Well, if you've already got the
Well, if you've already got the parts lying around, it'd be
interesting to try to make that work. My guess, though, is that the
cable housing emerging from the bar-end shifter will interfere with
the grip's outboard retaining ring. When I asked RBW about whether I
could use bar-end shifters with th
I don't have albatross bars, but I use and love barend shifters on all
my bars, including Noodles, a Moustache, and a VO Porteur. Note that
if you are planning on running 9 speed friction, the Silver shifters
are definitely nicer than the Shimanos, which are harder to micro
adjust.
Gernot
On Jan
