Right, have now had a chance to go out for a ride with the new handlebars (and brake leves, and gear shifters, and front mech, and...)
Can you post some photos of your bike with the butterfly bars on?
Sure thing.
With butterfly bars on:
Looking purposeful:
First impressions:
- They're a lot warmer with bar tape on!
- I seem to move around the different positions on the butterfly bars quite instinctively, so I got a lot more variation than I did just on the tops and hoods with the drop bars.
- Ooh! You can have some fun when you know you can brake if you need to, can't you!
- When you're parked up on the stand and the steering flopulates, it's nice not to have the chink of bar end shifter hitting toptube. (On the other hand, the steeping can flopulate much further round now.)
- I was out on my bike for about 7 hours and I don't have any bar end shifter induced bruises on my legs!
I think we're going to get on okay!
Gear fettling in return for veg prep. Fair exchange.
Ace: I'll put the port and brandy down as advance payment for some future mad-cap fettling then
Are you finding the butterfly bras a lot more comfortable to ride than the drop bars Nikki?
Changing bars was more a question of function and safety for me, rather than one of comfort. As above though, I'm getting more variety in my hand positions and the overall reach seems to suit me better as well. (Still considering whether I'm a bit too upright now...). Yesterday's ride was about 80-90% off-road on a variety of different surface qualities and we seemed to cope fine with all that entailed in terms of steering, braking (yay!) and vibration.
No reported issues with bra so far.
Are you finding the butterfly bras a lot more comfortable to ride than the drop bars Nikki?
That's quite a personal question Brian
On the other hand, I think we've worked out what the Art Project for the wonky bars will be.
I was pondering the feasibility of Pancho-ing them up and giving them a new home on NCN2 somewhere...