I bought a Quickbeam two years ago and have been rocking moustache bars on it ever since, and in MY experience, it is the greatest bar ever. I'm 6'3 with an 85cm saddle height, and though I took the drops & technonomic stem that came with the complete bike, I quickly returned them for the moustache/DirtDrop setup I had on a previous bike. I really didn't experience the wonder of "so many hand positions" that some have mentioned with drops, and actually just hated the flat position as I felt squished, and couldn't sustain any serious time in the drops without feeling like a masochistic Lycra Warrior.
Moustache bars give me one awesome hand position, which is hands in the curves, ready & able to brake, while being good and stretched out and also able to tuck down in that position when going for max speed downhill or get great leverage on some serious max effort climbing. I only ride my QB fixed and I really appreciate the advantages the bar gives in all types of riding: 1) comfortable cruising 2) "hillbombing" (<3 BSNYC) 3) hill climbing and 4) max upright (lazy) position at the bar ends. That Jitensha bar does look pretty sweet, and it sorta reminds me of the bullhorn bar I had on my first ever fixie. I loved that setup, but it may have just been because I was trying to fit in with the cool kids in Williamsburg (I did have a brake, so maybe not). On May 6, 3:15 am, "Rob H." <robhua...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jason I personally think there's just a elegant simplicity to the > Jitensha bars that seem in the same spirit as the simplicity of a > derailleur-less bike. > > On May 5, 11:06 am, jandrews_nyc <jasonaschwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm surprised to see so much support for the Jitensha bar...only > > because using that bar is my plan as well for the Simpleone. -- 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.
