I'm also on board with this perspective. Personally, I think I was hung up on drop bars, thinking that they were the apparent default "road" bars because it had been determined they were versatile, comfortable and just the best for serious cycling. I assumed that I just needed to dial things in to reach a level of comfort and natural control of the bike. That never really happened and I'm now wondering if I'm just best off with what feels best, and honestly admit that is usually Albas or some kind of swept-back city bars with mountain-type brake levers.
I recently built up a new Rambouillet with Albas and it may very well stay that way. BUT BUT - it's a ROAD BIKE! You can't do that! But really, if it feels right, why not? KJ On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 2:57:42 PM UTC-5, Jeremy Till wrote: > > Some musings and hopefully the first of a few posts on the subject: > > > http://handlebarchronicles.blogspot.com/2015/01/high-performance-upright-towards-new.html > > Further thought for this list: my thinking about this category is directly > informed, if not wholly made possible, by Grant and Rivendell's work. I > want to take what they've done and talk about it more broadly as a > category, as I believe there are many of us love this type of bike, > Rivendell devotees or no. I hope to devote a future post to the > intellectual antecedents of my category, including Grant but also Mike > Flanigan/ANT, old Raleighs, early MTB's, etc. > > Your thoughts and comments much appreciated. > > -jeremy > -- 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/d/optout.
