*Well, damgamit*.....The Albastaches are *great* for a moustache bar. However. I discovered that they did nothing to improve my carpal tunnel syndrome on a 2 hour road ride yesterday. I have weird ulnas (small bone of the forearm) in that they are longer than my Radius (large bone). I have poor wrist flexibility and it is hard to use the brake levers as they are rotated too high for me. At the end of the day, my wrists were very sore, and my left hand was almost completely numb and very painful. So, last night I put the woodchippers back on. Sigh....Another expensive bike addiction flub... They are a tremendous improvement on the Mustache bar. If you like the Mustache, you will love this bar. In the end, it is still a mustache bar. Just a better version.
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 7:41:39 AM UTC-7, clayton wrote: > > New Abastaches on my Atlantis. I haven't been able to ride yet due to > rain, but they feel good with the leaning on the refrigerator with your > knee and sitting in the saddle technique. The bar wrap is Brooks leather > tape over grab-on foam grips that extend up to the levers. The tape was > exactly the right length. Hopefully the bars and foam will ease my carpal > tunnel symptoms. The bars address the old problems. Closer, flatter, > higher. My one wish is that they were rounder where they return to the > stem. Brooks tape is the bomb. I have wrapped and rewrapped at least 20 > times with the same tape on various bars. The tape is getting a little > ratty, but I have come to believe that leather tape is the most cost > effective tape out there, it you experiment with different bar set ups. > > > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-wP4llY7FHZ0/UcmoTpWSfdI/AAAAAAAAABk/OzTsBEgnUrA/s1600/IMG_0544.jpg> > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j4yx4PByhCo/UcmoLj6pFII/AAAAAAAAABc/eVRaICl7Pfw/s1600/IMG_0543.jpg> > > -- 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/groups/opt_out.
