Thanks for sharing, James! Sick Hunq ya got there B) On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 7:02:28 PM UTC-5 Jay Lonner wrote:
> +1 on the Jones bars/Hunqapillar combo! Bosco variants had me sitting too > upright, and the non-bullmoose version was too flexy under load. > > Jay Lonner > Bellingham, WA > > Sent from my Atari 400 > > On Feb 15, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Chris L <clam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Congrats on the new bike! Hunqapillars are a rare model. > > > I love the Jones bar on my Hunqapillar. > > I've never been able to get comfortable on drops, but I've found a similar > position on the Jones bar, where the red circle is drawn. I rest my heel > on the juncture so that my thumbs hook just inside the loop. It puts me in > a nice (relatively speaking, for me) aerodynamic position in which I can > just cruise. > > Placing my hands an inch or so behind the controls is very similar to a > typical mountain bike handlebar. > > At the very back of the grips is used periodically when I want to sit up > and look around, or more often, to recover a little. > > I have the 2.5" rise version with 710mm width. > > [image: 20190324_075108 (2).jpg] > On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 11:38:34 AM UTC-6 mcgr...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi, all. Long time lurker, only recent poster. I posted a photo in the >> thread about Ron's Ortho Bars, but thought I should share more generally. >> After following Rivendell and buying parts here and there for 20 years or >> so, here's my Hunqapillar 62cm, bought from the wonderful folks at Mack's >> Bike and Goods, and now winding its way through the iterative, evolutionary >> process of getting it to what I want it to be. >> >> It's replacing the Surly Long Haul Trucker that I've had since 2005, but >> which wasn't cutting it anymore - couldn't get as relaxed a position as I >> wanted and couldn't fit as big a tire as I wanted. I had been using that >> bike not for its loaded touring intention, but for mixed >> pavement/gravel/light trail rides, like the last few years of the Nutmeg >> Noreaster. I restored a Motobecane Grand Record last year that I can use >> for my road bike, so the move to the Hunqapillar lets me have a >> do-everything bike that's a little less roadish. >> >> The Hunqapillar came around at exactly the right time. I've built it up >> with mostly parts from the bin. A couple of things that I'm working >> through (and open to any suggestions on!): >> >> (1) The front derailleur. I'm using a triple as a double with a bash >> guard replacing the outer ring, like I've done on other bikes. I'm using >> an old Deore XT crank, but on a 113mm bottom bracket spindle that's way too >> short for it. I have a 118 handy that I could easily swap in, but the >> chainline for the "middle" ring seems too perfect to want to move it out. >> It accommodates the 24/36t rings I want to use just fine. EXCEPT - a >> vintage derailleur has to be a mile high on the seat tube to not be hitting >> the chainstay, and a modern mountain derailleur solves that issue, but >> won't come in close enough to the seat tube to shift to the small ring. >> SIGH. I spent a bunch of time filing down a direct mount adapter, but >> still can't get close enough. I may keep going that route, or might do the >> inverse of the derailleur mod laid out here for quad chainring use and >> shorten a derailleur cage - >> http://abundantadventures.com/mtfaq/frontderail/fr.derail.mods.html >> >> (2) Handlebars. I jumped on the Ron's Ortho bar sale and was lucky >> enough to get one. The problem is that it sweeps back a little too far for >> me, even with a 120mm stem. I thought about looking for a 130, but I think >> I need a bar with a better forward position. The Ortho bar has a little >> too much rise for the forward position to work for me, or for me to mount >> it upside down. It also can be a bit of a wheelie machine for me when >> going up a steep hill or steep bit of trail. But now what? A friend has an >> Albatross I may borrow to test in the flipped position, or I may look at >> the Choco or Choco-Moose (which looks like it could be really cool, but >> hard to spend all that $$$ without knowing!). The Billie bar could be >> promising, but seems to be sold out everywhere. I used an Albastache on my >> Surly for a while and like the variation in positions, but my wrists don't >> like the default brake set up. I did run it with inverse levers for a bit, >> but I now really want to stick with a trigger shifter. >> >> tl;dr - here are some photos I took of >> the-bike-that-I'm-very-happy-with-but-still-tweaking here in the lovely >> South Mountain Reservation on a warm lunchtime ride last week >> >> [image: Screenshot 2022-02-10 161030.png] >> >> [image: Screenshot 2022-02-14 162511.png] >> >> James >> South Orange, NJ >> > -- > 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-bun...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a6d1f464-5111-4bcd-b8f2-d5bd91b4a5f9n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/a6d1f464-5111-4bcd-b8f2-d5bd91b4a5f9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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