I have Noodles on 3 bikes: a 700c LHT, a 26" LHT, and Rawland Nordavinden. The bars on the Nordavinden are relatively narrow (42cm?), which seems to work very well with the low-trail (33mm) geometry of that bike: they are absolutely comfortable over any distance I've managed so far. I have larger Noodles (47cm?) on the two Surlys, with further differences: the 700c was originally a complete-bike build, and I swapped the Noodles into the existing stem at the existing position (level with the seat). The 26" LHT was a custom build on a Trucker DeLuxe frameset, and there's a noticeable drop between the seat and the bars on that bike. For either of the Surlys with the wide Noodles, I can find comfortable hand positions for long stretches of riding, but I can tell the difference between the three bikes in terms of cockpit comfort. I find myself fantasizing about raising the bars on the 26" LHT to seat level; I mull making a stem modification on the 700c LHT to bring the stem perhaps a cm closer to the seat. Thus far, I've done neither of these things, and tell myself I have desirable biomechanical diversity across the different bikes in the herd. So far, I'm buying that, possibly because I'd rather spend the time riding than wrenching... I've got another bike build queued up for the Winter months (older Ebisu AP), and haven't made a decision about bars for that yet... Might go with the same width Noodles as on the Rawland, might try the Maes Parallel bars... We'll see.
rod On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 2:08:59 PM UTC-4, Olof Stroh wrote: > > Grant wrote: > > I THINK the consensus here is that a Noodle still wins (my vote, but > that's to be expected, I'm sure). > > > > I had a Nitto 176 aka Dream Bar I bought from Riv and loved. Read the > praise for Noodles, bought them and tried to love them but found them to be > murder for my wrists. They are now adorning my cellarfloor while I had to > search ebay for my second and third Dream Bar as Riv had taken its hand > from them. IS there a concensus and I the peculiar outlier or what? Just > asking. > > > > Olof Stroh > > Uppsala Sweden > > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
