Transition from drop to flat bar tourers
Re: Transition from drop to flat bar tourers
In old age, all my fleet of trikes & bikes now have North Road bars. I have experimented with butterfly bars, straights with bar ends. Never got on with drops, preferring a more upright position.
Re: Transition from drop to flat bar tourers
With drops there are, these days, numerous permutations of reach & amount of drop, as well as multiple variations of overall shape.Greystoke wrote: ↑4 Apr 2021, 12:59pm As detailed up post I modified my flat bars because they were uncomfortable.
I fitted drops and a short stem. I never use the full drop position so I could fit bull horn bars but the drop bars provide me sufficient hand positions and are very comfortable
As has been suggested, try a shorter stem, lift the handle bars and rotate them a bit so the hoods are nearer.
On an older bike I found it much improved when I swapped a more tradional dimensioned drop bar for a short reach, compact drop one (FSA Vero) combined with a 10mm longer stem. The hoods & drops were closer but the tops were slightly further away, all of which suited me personally.
I've gone the other way to the OP & now have all drop bar bikes - tandem was flat bar (converted using drop bar shaped bar ends), old MTB (1986 no suspension) was (effectively) swapped for a gravel bike (which has ended up supplanting the road bike as well in practice to become "the bike").
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Re: Transition from drop to flat bar tourers
Cool! I've always had a soft spot for north road 'bars, I used them for the first few years of touring, and I hope to fit my next bike with them- do you have any photos?
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Re: Transition from drop to flat bar tourers
I have a Cube pedelec trekking bike . It came with straight bars these only offer one position and found my shoulders ached so changed to butterflies which offered multi positions.
Q3 The Cube bike is well made I went through the various specs I picked a basic spec knowing I could upgrade the bike at a cheaper price. It has hydraulic brakes which are self-adjusting .The pads can be changed without bleeding. At first I made the mistake of opening the system and had to bleed them (the internet has plenty of advice to bleed without using expensive bleeding kit)
Also Cube offer a fixed rear rack there no rails for standard panniers. there are special Cube panniers that fit.
On the forum there is a post about removing a welded fixed rack and fitting a better rack.
Q3 The Cube bike is well made I went through the various specs I picked a basic spec knowing I could upgrade the bike at a cheaper price. It has hydraulic brakes which are self-adjusting .The pads can be changed without bleeding. At first I made the mistake of opening the system and had to bleed them (the internet has plenty of advice to bleed without using expensive bleeding kit)
Also Cube offer a fixed rear rack there no rails for standard panniers. there are special Cube panniers that fit.
On the forum there is a post about removing a welded fixed rack and fitting a better rack.