Bars are almost as personal as saddles, but I like Drops. My favorites: Road, lowish: bar none, none, none (NPI): Grand Bois Maes parallel -- narrow! 37 at hoods widening to ~40 at ends of hooks. I like them!
The Noodles are almost as nice, if I use a stem 1 cm longer. This puts the Noodles a bit closer (since they bend back a bit and have only a 95 mm reach -- dunno if "95" includes the bend-back) and deeper (140 mm versus 125 mm) But the way I've got them set up on the Ram, they feel just like the Maeses on the two customs. Off road. Dammit, I tried almost every off road drop bar, from the original WTBs to the latest Salsas and so on, but never liked any of them. 46 Noodles were too wide and too deep. 42 Noodles felt fine -- a bit too deep -- but were too narrow for off-road manoeuvering comfort. I tried 44 mm Nitto B 135 Randos as a last resort, because I got them cheap, thinking I'd end up with the Albatross. Nope. The B 135s, 44 mm, are perfect for my kind of non-technical dirt riding. The only defect is that the rise to the ramps makes use of interrupter levers impractical. -- 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.
