I've been building up a really special bike project this winter, but just hit a snag. It was intended to serve somewhere in the space between a mountain bike and a road bike, for fast rides on bumpy roads & trails, more mountain than road. Having *finally* dialed-in and become completely enamored with the original moustache bars on my road bike last year, I thought that Albastache bars might be the perfect thing for this build: wider, less reach, and less drop. But, as I prepared to order them from Riv, I discovered (as most of you probably already knew) that they only come in 26.0 clamp diameter.
Darn it! I really need to keep my 25.4 stem. Has anybody ever had or heard of in success reducing the diameter of the clamp area on a bar like this? They have the extra aluminum sleeve, so I don't think the bar integrity would be compromised. But I don't have any idea how to do it evenly so that there's still a nice round section. Probably just file and sand, I guess? My stem is welded steel, so it could conform to a slightly irregular shape better than a forged one could. Re-sale-ability be damned, is this a bad idea? Likewise, has anybody heard rumors of Riv eventually releasing these in both clamp size options? Thoughts appreciated... -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
