Hi Modemmisuser, Just my $0.02, but as someone who could never figure out the attraction of Nitto Noodles (I have relatively short arms and small hands, so any remotely long-reach handlebar will just never work...), I find Soma's Highway One (Hwy 1) handlebar to be just perfect -- short reach, shallow-ish drop, comfortable bends. (Absence of pressure on hands in our cases is probably the result of other aspects of the set-up, though.)
I've had it on my Saluki, and it's currently on a Bianchi Volpe that's done up with silver bits. My boyfriend uses it on his Sam Hillborne (2008 or so vintage) and his Long Haul Trucker. I use STI levers with it; boyfriend has bar ends, for the moment, on both of his set-ups. Super comfortable. As they say, though, your mileage may vary! Good luck! -- Liz Washington, DC On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 9:54:02 AM UTC-5 modemm...@gmail.com wrote: > I have a 2016 Sam, from the batch of completes that year. I love the > bike, and now that I'm riding a lot more (my wife was gifted with being > able to ride again after not being able to for years; she has a '16 Sam > too), I swapped bars from the stock (Nitto Noodle) to an Albastache. > > The Noodle was only giving me ONE hand position, on the hoods. The drops > didn't feel usable to me and the flats are just too narrow for my comfort. > The hoods position was putting a lot of pressure on the meaty part of my > hands behind the thumbs. > > The 'Stache fixes that and gives me a lot of hand positions - on the > "hoods" (but it's a big flat on the 'Stache of course), behind them, and > pretty much all along the rest of the bar. I like it, but... > > I do miss the hand position that only comes from having a drop bar on > being on those hoods in that orientation; I just need one that will put > them in a spot that doesn't put all the weight on the meaty-hand-part > behind the thumbs. > > I have to admit I also miss how the bike looks with a drop bar. O_o I > dunno, I guess the bike just "wants" that look, to me. > > I'd also like to not run the shifters as barend shifters... So I'd go > thumbie or some type of (SHHHH DON'T TELL GRANT) brifter. > > The other issue I don't have access to the funds that some others around > here seem to. :) These bikes were EXPENSIVE to us ($2,600 a pop and we've > added front and rear racks, fenders, etc.) > > Ideas, comments, questions, help, etc, etc? I'm sure lots around here > have Sams and have done this handlebar/cockpit rodeo lots of times! > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b3f393ce-028d-4ccf-b1eb-de9bd0cb47c6n%40googlegroups.com.
