Garth and Joe, Thanks for confirming that the rise is less than the Albatross. Not exactly what I wanted to hear. But perhaps the bike has a taller headtube that would make up for this. Or, get one of those super-duper tall stem that BBDD loves on her Clem L. But, I understand they are sold out everywhere.
Joe, are you OK? This doesn't sound like you: ..."Bombadil which will apparently never be completed..my bike building skills have lost their oomph!" Perhaps it's just the bad air? Roberta On Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 6:36:12 PM UTC-4 Garth wrote: > > Roberta, from what can tell in the write up and photos between Riv and BL > websites, it is indeed a Bosco bar shape but with much less rise. Judging > from the side views it's less rise than an Alba, about the same rise as a > Billie, give or take 5mm. Whatever you can fit onto a Bosco bar would apply > to the Losco. If whatbars.com showed them they ought to appear the same > shape as the images are only from above. > > > On Sunday, September 20, 2020 at 3:47:50 PM UTC-4, Roberta wrote: >> >> >> Does anyone have rise information, especially on how it compares to the >> Albatross? These bars aren't published on the excellent site >> whatbars.com . Rise for Bosco is 100, for the Albas at 50 on the site. >> >> I'm thinking about these for my Platypus. These look like there's more >> room for bell, shifter, brakes in front of grips than the Albas. It might >> even be better because it comes back a little more and I'm expecting the >> Platypus to be long in the middle. >> >> Thanks, >> Roberta >> >> >>> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/2ee2a9d9-9362-42e7-bd5d-ba5bf02ddec4n%40googlegroups.com.
