New Bike Day always gets the pulse up. For clamp-on grips, I've used Ergons & been quite happy with both the ease of installation / removal and the comfort. As to swapping bars back'n'forth, you'd need to allow enough cable & housing to handle the widest bar in your test group. I've been doing a bit of bar fiddling myself lately and the "hassle factor" I've hit is getting some of the bars with tighter bends thru the Nitto stem without scratching them up. A stem with a removable face plate would simplify this. Some set-ups I've fiddled with should have had different length stems than I had. After always using drops, I'm exploring upright bars & it's a whole other world, good for hours of conjecture & entertainment.
dougP On Saturday, April 12, 2014 8:31:24 AM UTC-7, DS wrote: > Hey all - My Hunqapillar is 2-3 weeks away from being built, very > exciting. No got to decide on the build. I'm mostly going with the build > kit. But very undecided on which handlebar setup. So instead of another > 'which handlebar thread' (btw, the recent one with Patrick was very > helpful), I decided I just need to figure out the hard way: by trying them > all. > > I am undecided between Albatross v. Bulmoose > standard/drops/woodchippers/midge. I like the Albatross, that is what I > rode with the Hunq for a demo ride. But thinking I may want something with > more control for singletrack rides like the bullmoose, or possibly drops > (with the woodchipper and midge as an option there). Not really considering > Albastache or Moustache....as of now. This bike will be used for mixed > rides, mtn biking (fire roads and single track), commuting, errands, road > rides, so basically an 'all rounder'. > > My big reservation with handlebar swaps is that the meisha cork grips > (part of the build kit) are glued on, making it difficult to do handlebar > swaps. Am I correct there? So here's my question, if I get a lock-on > handlebar grip, does that eliminate that problem? Is there any reason I > could not just swap the bars by removing the grips, brakes, and shifters > (in this case the paul thumbies) and sliding the handlebars out the stem > and putting in the new handlebar in the same stem and re-installing the > grips/brakes/shifters? Basically a 10 minute swap? I've never dealt with > grips, only drop bars and tape on my road bike. Any issues with that? > Will the cable length be an issue? Would I want a different stem for > different handlebars? > > And on that note, any recommendations on a lock-on grip? Was looking at a > brooks one, the ergon one, and plain ole foam ones. Likely I'll put on the > meisha cork grips once I've decided which way to go. > > -- 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/d/optout.
