I'm curious as to how much you've tried to adjust the rotation of your drop bars, to achieve different positions of the two relative to one another.
I have two bikes each with the same drop bar (Whisky 12 flare). It is a short reach bar. I can't recall how I had them previously configured, but on each bike, they've had updates recently. The Salsa Fargo has SRAM Apex 1 brifter. In its latest iteration, I rotated the drop bars down so the drop is parallel to the ground (it's maybe even 1-2 degrees upward). And I moved the brifter all the way up the hook, to the last adjustment line towards the ramp. This is the most comfortable I've had this set up. I like how the drops are less reach and I find myself using them often (lots of trail time other than winter). And being short reach, there is virtually no transition from top to hood (maybe 5-7mm). It works for me. On my Roadini, I recently changed to 105 brifters (from Tektro RRL). I left the bars unwrapped and rode around a lot, then had them wrapped and I've been on it 5 or so times. When I compare them, the Salsa's cockpit setup is more comfortable. The Roadini has the drops angled about 10 degrees down. The hoods are at an angle I really like, but they're further down the drop (to get this angle, with bars rotated the way I did), and the ramp is longer than on the Fargo, but flat (I don't usually like it sloped down). I'm now thinking of unwrapping to just below the brifter, moving the hoods up the hooks, and rotating the drops down to try and get same feel as the Fargo (but it's such a different bike, and the brifters are very different, so I'm not sure it's possible). Welcome your experience if you've 'played' with a situation like above and how it went. -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/47b04c93-e5d5-417f-accc-9efefb86e320n%40googlegroups.com.
