Well, I personally think drops are where it's at for an all around bar, especially on a bike that has canti posts and allows some serious braking. Nitto Noodles work well as an all around bar with really comfortable hand positions. Now, I will say I really liked the Nitto mustache bars I used on a Jamis Aurora. They gave a few hand positions and you could get yourself down into a more aggressive position with holding the bends too. I've had Albatross bars and those are good for a bike that I'm not going to try to "perform" on. For mountain biking I still like a flat bar (my mountain bike is a newer Trek fuel ex, so it's not rivy at all). The flat bars seem to give enough leverage where I can move that front wheel around obstacles with authority. I'm not a great, graceful mountain biker, so the extra "authority" is often needed. So...All around I would go with Noodles...my go fast Roadeo has Mark's bars which I like a lot....getting more into the dirt and trail riding I would opt for something like a mustache bar.
On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 9:45:35 PM UTC-5, drew wrote: > I have a sam and a hunqapillar. sam had mustache bars, hunq had albatross. > Then the hunq got albastache and the sam got the old albatross bars because > I figured it was silly to have 2 bikes with similar bars. Long story short, > the albatross bars on the sam feel way too upright for my liking (and sam > is my "roadyish" bike). I'm aware of all the nitto/riv models, but what do > people like for an all around bar? > > Looking for a couple hand positions, not fully upright, faster feeling > bar, mostly road riding with a little dirt. Solo, all purpose/no purpose > rides. > I haven't ridden drops since a fixed gear bike got me into bikes (and away > from fixed gears). I'm not super excited about drops but am somewhat > curious about the low rise dirt drop style bars. What's out there that I > should be considering? > -- 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.
