I put Long distance on my moustache bars and love them - <https://imgur.com/5uXqCmt.jpg> - I think most people use too great reach on their stem, don't angle their break levers downward correctly, and try to grab the bend of the bars rather than resting their palms on the straight sweep and only hooking their thumbs in the bend.
On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 2:46:06 PM UTC-6, Lum Gim Fong wrote: > > I agree. I tried the original Moustache and hand pain would start in first > 1/2 mile of rides. Pain pain pain. No matter where on the bar I'd grip, > pressure point on the exact same spot, no variation, at least for me. Gave > it a month. Never tried any 'stache iteration since. But for some people > they are fantastic I hear. So I guess it is like saddles, very personal. > They look very cool though and I had the best braking finger reach with > road levers on them. So there are pluses. > > > On Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 12:22:46 PM UTC-5, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> The Moustache Handlebar - Grant told me he says the whole name 'cause >> it's a riff on handlebar moustache - on the Bstone XO-1 is what drew me >> into bikes around 1992, I thought it was the coolest thing! But alas I've >> tried every variation of them since and my hands/wrists just can't do it. >> Oh well! > > -- 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.
