This may be obvious enough that you neglected to mention it, but do you have a shim in the bar clamp, since the lugged stem is 26.0 and Albatrosses are 25.4?
On May 2, 12:14 pm, Bill Rhea <billr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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/HunqapillarInTheHi... > > 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.
