I'll throw in my ideas, Deac. Straight wrists, bent elbows, relaxed neck and shoulders are first priority. When you get to the contact on your hands, aside from not wanting to lean on them, you want to be able to control the bike with a natural relaxed rest, and of course be able to instantly grab it when needed for greater control. When I installed my Map bars, I already had the reach measured from the outside grip on my long-perfect Moustache cockpit. It took a couple of hundred miles to get the bar rotation at the stem correct for long rides, and first ride over 40 miles told me the drop that was needed.
No matter the length of ride, you should be balancing with your hands, but your support should be in your core muscles, and not in your neck and shoulders. I know you know this, but for others, if you want to test it sometime, try the next climb leaning into your core muscles and not leaning on your arms. You will find an instant burst of spin energy. My good riding buddy has been taking yoga classes, and went from an also-ran to the fastest in the group. On Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 8:41:05 AM UTC-5, Deacon Patrick wrote: > > Could you help me understand what you are saying here? For this to be true > requires an inefficiency to be introduced to the "comfy" handlebar system > that doesn't exist in the drop handlebar system. What is that inefficiency? > The only inefficiency I experience, and it is relatively negligible outside > a "hundredths of seconds matter racing scenario," is wind resistance, which > I can eliminate a large portion of by more deeply bending my elbows when it > is a large factor. > > With abandon, > Patrick > > On Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 6:00:19 AM UTC-6, panog wrote: >> >> one minus and that is loss of speed for the same input of power, all else >> equal > > -- 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.
