Here's what I was thinking of. It's a Roadini with Wavie bars. I think I would like the Albastache better with the brakes up front like my Cheviot, but that's my personal preference. https://www.rivbike.com/products/47cm-roadini-mermaid
Toshi On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 10:28 AM Toshi Takeuchi <tto...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm almost positive there was a Roadini set up with an Albastache bar in > one of Will's updates. My Cheviot uses Albastache bars and I like it > because I have an upright position at the rear of the bars and a lower > position at the front of the bars. My brakes are at the front--not in the > back. The distance is perfect--kind of roadish, but much easier to brake > than drop bars. I've attached a picture here. > > Rich Lesnik has a Roadeo set up with Albastache bars. It's a wonderful > bike. The Albastache is designed, as far as I have experienced to take a > similar stem as the drop bars and similar position as the drop bars, but > much nicer on the back! I would ask Rich about his stem length on the > Roadeo compared to his previous drop bars. > > --I have triples on all my bikes. You can start with a 11-28 cassette, > but use a mountain rear derailleur and you can swap to a larger cassette if > you feel like you want lower gears for the hills. All of mine or 48-38-24, > but 46-36-24 or variations thereof should be absolutely fine. The only > problem I've ever had with triples is dropping the chain when shifting into > the small ring. You can get a "chain watcher" or some variation thereof to > guide the chain onto the small ring and it will solve that problem if you > have it. > -- 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/CAGB59xzoXCp%2B1-JFvr%2BXdap6FL6ZYMVaC1wO1vXyVUGwwR02JA%40mail.gmail.com.
