Not really , basis Marc's photo. Unless he'd pointed it out I wouldn't have been able to tell it was you basis body position. You 2 are riding much nicer bikes IMO. But, admittedly, most modern road bikes by major manufacturers don't do a lot for me. But that's me and YMMV. Not dissing anyone who rides them. On the rare occasions that I ride my old Riv road which does have drop bars, I am on the hoods or just behind; sometimes on the top , and very rarely in the drops. Bars are more or less level with the saddle. And admittedly, the ergonomics are much better after replacing older Campy Super Record brakes and levers with Grand Cru brakes and those funky TRP road levers.
But since 1993 my bar of choice is the elegant but certainly polarizing moustache bar. Which almost certainly would have replaced the drops on my road bike had I not stumbled on TRP and Velo-Orange Grand Cru. On Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 2:46:14 PM UTC-5 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > Well, of course everyone should ride what they prefer to ride. Just Ride, > and all that jazz, and love your bike and stuff. > > I think what Marc is saying is that it just seems ironic. We both feel it > is our handlebars that make the roadies look askance at us. Something about > swept-back bars says “not serious” to the other riders in a club ride. But > truthfully, they are sitting upright on the tops of their drop bars about > as tall as I am, so is there really a huge difference? > > I mean, it’s a fair question… > > On Tuesday, July 26, 2022 at 7:29:03 AM UTC-4 Marc Irwin wrote: > >> It was a normal Monday night ride with the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club. A >> typical group was riding 15-16 MPH for 25 or so miles. A good bunch of >> people in biking regalia on their over the counter crotch rockets with drop >> bars, except for me and Leah Peterson on our Rivendells. with upright >> bars. In the lousy cell phone shot I took from the back of the group, >> Leah is the second white helmet from from the front left. Notice her >> posture compared to the body position of all the riders on their drop bars. >> [image: high bars.jpg] >> It was that way the whole ride. Most club riders assume their drop bars >> make them faster, after all, EVERYBODY uses them right? >> >> Marc >> > -- 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/7661fc78-3589-44ec-9212-2c01bc2ea30dn%40googlegroups.com.
