my experience is limited to a vintage nitto set. i think the effective reach is 130mm on mine. (available for sale). they look badass, but i did not like them for a few reasons. I think those reasons are sort of amended/fixed in the newer rivendell offering. the older ones are, more or less, flat/straight bars. there is very little sweep to them. also, the quill length doesnt allow them to be raised very much, so i ended up being in a pretty aggressive position on a flat bar with one hand position. i also felt like they put my body in a position where my legs had to work harder. i can see how they would be good for mtb stuff where you need to be able to really manhandle the front end. i dont have much call for that type of riding, so i disliked them so much that i doubt ill even try the updated riv bullmoose. its just not a shape that i see working for me on really long or super casual rides, which is mostly what i end up doing.
this is the progression that my 84 trek mtb went through. -albatross, 120cm stem- too uprighty and hand painy over long periods -map/ahearne- 120cm stem- good mix of upright vs forward leaning. wide enough for control and hand movement. -vintage bullmoose -return to map/ahearne happiness. like patrick, on my hunq i have albastache bars with a short stem and am coming to the realization that these are probably the best bars for me. i bought the choco bars to try out (since sold them), and i wouldnt compare them to the albastache. if anything, they feel like a flat bosco or an albatross that comes back even further, but gives you a slightly more comfortable forward position than albatross since there is minimal rise. with a 13cm (the longest) tallux, the choco bars retreated toward the saddle at least 9-10cm more than the albastache on a stem with a 6cm (the shortest) effective reach. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
