I just swapped the drop bars on the stoker side of our tandem for Albs. My wife had been complaining about both pubic chafing (many different saddles had no affect on this) and neck soreness. I warned her that the Albs would put more pressure on her buns. Results: Albs have fixed all the other problems but hurt her buns on on B17.
Switching between drops & Albs on her single doesn't look as easy. It will require new: stem, bars, brake levers, brake housing & cables, and grips or tape. Time & money. The even bigger solution would be to trade her classic Sequoia for a Betty. More money. On Thursday, June 20, 2013 2:47:26 PM UTC-4, Johnny Alien wrote: > > So I am in the beginning stages of ordering up a Sam Hillborne and I am > really stuck on the handlebars. I have used drops pretty much my whole life > but did have a MB-1 equipped with Nitto Bullmoose bars and have used the > Albatross bars awhile ago and liked them. While this will be my only bike > the allure of the comfy Albatross is pulling me that way. It seems like I > will still have a few hand positions with them too. On the other hand I > also love the look of drops and are familiar with them. I do lots of trail > riding and some road riding as well. Will the Albatross be the wrong bars > for riding on the road? I am hoping someone here will say something to sway > me one way or the other. -- 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 post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
