I spent some time on favorite trails yesterday and snapped a few cell phone cam photos of my 62cm Hunqa:
https://picasaweb.google.com/115167041841412610078/HunqapillarInTheHills5111?authkey=Gv1sRgCImI2MiGwJqxpAE# I really like the Albatross bar set up on this bike. Being able to lean back a bit when descending lends confidence, I think, and I like touring with this kind of bar. However, I've got a vexing issue: No matter how hard I cinch the binder bolt on the lugged stem, the bars will still move a bit when going through rough spots at speed. Does anybody have any suggestions to help sure this up? I replaced the stock binder bolt with a higher-tensile strenght variety, but still have snapped a few trying to get sufficient bind on the bar.... I found that I have to angle the grip ends of the bar downward somewhat in order to keep my hands from slipping forward on the bars on steep, rough trails, but the amount of downward slant you see in the photos is after slipping somewhat and is a bit more than I like. Frankly, I'm getting a little paranoid about that little binder bolt failing on me at an inopportune moment.... I had really good luck with 'trosses on my old XO-1 and have toured with them plenty, but that's with a mountain-bikey stem with a bit wider, 25.4 clamp. Also, those bars I never have angled down so much because it never really got much use as a mountain bike. Shmaybe I'm pushing these bars a bit much for a big (210 lb.), lay-off- yer-brakes kind of guy (?) Is it bullmoose time? -BR -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
