I like the Albastache bars a lot and have had them on a few bikes, but find that it is much more of an aggressive riding position due to you being in the curves where the brakes are, compared to the uprightedness (sp?) of the Albatross bars, which I enjoy for more upright townie riding.
I did a Trek 500 '84 conversion a while back (also did a 650b conversion at the same time). I put on Albastache bars at first and ended up flipping them and finding some road diameter mtn syle lever brakes to setup on the bar ends as an Albatross-like setup, and that ended up working ok. If I had to do it again I would get a new stem and brake levers. Though, I think the big issue with the Albastache bars on that setup was that the stem I had on there was too short, so I'd also consider the Albastache bars with a shorter stem, I like short and high w/ Albastache, those drops are further out than you think. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
