I've ridden 60+ miles on an Atlantis with Albatross bars. That's about my limit. Longer than that, the hands start to get a bit numb from lack of position changes.
They are great bars when I just want to toodle around and not have any concern about speed. Which, actually, is almost all the time anyway. Since my speed is comparable to a pre-global warming glacier. Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Sep 14, 8:45 am, d2mini <[email protected]> wrote: > My moustache bars were not all that comfortable for me so I thought > I'd try me some Albatross bars on the AHH to get my hands higher and > closer to me. I expected to be considerably slower sitting that > upright. I did feel a bit awkward at first, riding a bike in that > position, but to my surprise I was no slower. On this morning's > commute I was puttin along at an easy 17mph which would be my normal > speed pre-albatross. So yay! > > So this weekend which was my first ride with them I did 25 miles. Not > a long ride, but plenty long enough to know if a certain type of > handlebar is going to work or not. I found them very comfortable the > entire ride. Most of the time my hands were in the customary position > on the grips, but once in a while I'd grab the forward bend for a bit > more aero (if you can call it that) position and that wasn't bad > either. Now I had always heard that Albatross bars weren't a great > choice for anything over 20 miles, but i felt like I could have gone > quite a bit further and been perfectly comfortable. > > So those of you with these kinds of bars (north road, albatross, etc) > how far have you found that you've been able to travel with them > before you were wishing you had something else? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
