I bought a too small AllRounder back in '96. http://tinyurl.com/cuuynn (I was thinking off-road use when buying the 58cm, but later Grant put me on a 61.5cm road frame, to give you some idea of how too small it is.) I put mustache bars on it that ended up being 3 inches below the saddle with a Pearl stem. After a few years I decided I hated mustache bars (duh!). Maybe I would like them at or above saddle height, but I am not trying again. Besides my wrong placement, I missed the top flats.
But that is not why I am writing. When I rode the mustache, I often just lightly rested my hands on the tops of the bars or the brake levers, not hooking a thumb or finger underneath as I do when riding drops or flat bars. This was fine for years. But one day, in the summer of 1997, I saw a shapely young cyclist up the road. So of course I accelerated to overtake. I failed to notice a speed bump, and as I hit it, my hands flew off the bars and off I went the front end of the bike. The too low bars put a dent in the top tube. The road scraped lots of flesh off my left arm. The impact broke both cups of the ends of the radius (or ulna, I don't know which is what in my forearm) of my right arm. It hurt like hell to ride back home, and for a month thereafter. The arm pops on rare occasion to this day when I straighten my arm (calcium buildup along the cup crack?). So the moral of this story is something like, not to stay away from the mustache, but keep your hormones in check, or keep your thumb hooked under your mustache, or maybe both! On May 1, 7:27 pm, nathan spindel <nath...@gmail.com> wrote: > After a long morning ride today with a Noodle bar, wishing I was more > upright, I'm now looking to buy a Nitto Moustache bar (26.0mm clamp > size). Let me know if you've got one for sale! > > -nathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
