Yeah the B135 sounds like it would be a good fit, except for the limited width. 45cm in itself is almost wide enough, but that's measured c to c at the bar ends, right? That style of bar is going to be much narrower at the flats, I'd think.
Sounds like I had my terminology wrong earlier when I was talking about the ramps. I meant the drops. Right now I've tilted the Mark's bar up slightly (cheating, like Patrick says). This makes the drops really steep, like 35deg or more. Kinda funky. Thanks for all the replies. On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > + 1 for the B 135 -- shortish reach and very comfortable upsweep. The > Noodle sweeps back but not up; reach (I take it that Riv means effective > reach) is 95 mm. So if you can stomach 1 more cm of reach, the B 135 may > well be your boy. I see that Ben's Cycles has a 45 cm width model. > > So, yes, the Noodle has a shorter reach but a deeper drop. > > Me, I prefer the shallower 120 mm drop to the Noodle's (not *Noodles'!*) > 140 mm -- IIRC, the Mark's is very like the Nitto 185 which has 135 mm drop. > > BTW, you can indeed adjust the tilt of a bar to make your ramps longer or > to bring the brake levers up and closer, but IMO that is cheating; choose a > bar that fits and lets you get the levers where you like them. > > And, for another lister's question: per conventional terminology, flat or > top: section of a drop bar from clamp to forward bend. Ramp: flat part from > bend to hood -- some bars don't have much of a ramp, like the Mark's. Hook > or "drop": inside portion of forward curve from hood to ends of bar. > > Patrick Moore, riding one bicycle handlebar (tm, singular) at a time in > ABQ, NM > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Jack Barnes <jackba...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jackba...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> I've been riding on VO's Rando >> <https://store.velo-orange.com/index.php/grand-cru-rando-handlebar.html> >> bars, but have decided that they have too much forward reach. Switched over >> to a Mark's Bar that I have in the parts bin, and I'm finding that I like >> the reduced reach but miss the upswept flats. Would the Noodle give me some >> of this effect? Hard to tell from the pics. >> >> I don't need it to be as swoopy as the rando bars. Nitto's rando bar >> looks like a decent option, but too narrow — I'm looking for a 46 or 48cm >> width. >> >> thanks, >> Jack >> >> -- >> 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 >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> >> . >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com');>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > ************************************************************************** > ************** > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the contours of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the > world revolves.) *Carthusian motto > > *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart > > *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/ZtGBCkDM6RI/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
