Zack, I ride albatross bars with Avid MTB levers and thumbies. No problem standing to climb or sprint.
I really like albatross bars. I might try Billie bars someday but I’m cheap and albatross work so well I might not. Mine are shimmed in a 26.0 tallux. No squeaks or issues. Best, Aaron in El Paso On Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 11:55:40 AM UTC-6 Erik Wright wrote: > Hey Zack, > > I ride with Albatross bars on my Hillborne. I also do a lot of city riding > in Philly where just about every intersection has a stop sign. I stand & > pull all the time from just about every hand position on the bar. In my > opinion, it's fine. The one thing I'd say is to make sure you either use a > 25.4 stem or get a shim for a 26.0 stem- the bars WILL scooch around with > aggressive pulling. > > Erik, Philly > On Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 6:05:52 AM UTC-7 Tom Palmer wrote: > >> Hi Zack, >> I stand to climb even with a full load on my touring bike. Alabas are at >> my bare minimum width for this, but body types vary. I transitioned to a >> wider bar and enjoy it more than the albas on this bike. The bars are >> generic chrome steel from a bike I bought long a go, but they just work. I >> had the bike loaded up for a test run this week and climbed well for me >> standing. When climbing or acellerating as you describe, I pull on the bars >> and rock the bike. >> Go for it. >> Tom Palmer >> Twin Lake, MI >> >> On Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 2:49:48 AM UTC-4 zem...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> I've been interested in switching to albatross bars but one of my >>> concerns is that it'll be difficult to stand, pedal hard, and pull on the >>> bars. I do a lot of city riding, so being able to do this from a stop or >>> rolling stop is a key part of my riding. >>> >>> I've watched Dan Stroud's (aka hobocross) video on how he sets up his >>> albas to have more of a "hoods" position, which seems like a natural >>> solution to this problem, but in his video he doesn't seem to stand and >>> pull a whole lot. >>> >>> Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGokAt6XAi0&t=152s >>> >>> Anyone have thoughts/experience with this? >>> >>> Zack >>> Toronto/DC >>> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/eb1d289a-ecfd-4a84-8e8b-6df99df389dcn%40googlegroups.com.
