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Anyone ride “alternative” style bars?
On our road bikes, we usually use drop bars. On mountain bikes, flat bars or slight risers. But what about the moustache bar? Jones H-bar? Personally I have one bike in my stable that rocks the nitto moustache with downtube shifters...and I love it. Have been considering trying Velo Orange Crazy Bars, just for fun.
Anyone else ride alternative bars exclusively? Something a little out of the ordinary? |
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We just had a bike built for my wife and it has porteur-style bars. She wanted an upright position and these bars were suggested by the builder. She seems to like them.
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Yes I made this frame and assembled it into a bicycle this year. I built most of it as a demonstration in one of my framebuilding classes. A new bike trail was recently built close to me and this is perfect for a quick ride getting some fresh air. I can just go with my regular clothes without the need for putting on the whole cycling kit. It is like the equivalent of taking a walk. Most of the time I'm riding slower than 10 miles an hour. I ride it about 4 miles total every week to church too unless it recently snowed. Because i'm going slow I can wear my heavy winter jacket.
This is a lightweight version of the charity bikes we make for pastors in Ukraine. Those are built for strength and endurance and not speed. This one has 700 X 38 tires. It has a generator front hub with a Plant Bike headlight. The rear Topeak trunk slides easily onto their rear rack. An Abus ring lock is more than good enough to prevent an impulse steal in Niles. I do have a chain that can attach to the lock if I'm going someplace that requires extra security. My wife rode it recently and changed her mind from wanting a road bike with wider tires to one like this with upright bars. Hers will have the Nitto "North Road" handlebars. She already has a kind of hybrid bike I made here with MTB type of bars. She realized after her test ride that M shaped handlebars are more comfortable. The Dutch have it right. This bike is not a replacement to my road bikes but just broadens my usage to a different kind of riding. |
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I have some Ahearne Map bars with thumbies for the townie. Love em
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I liked the split personality that properly positioned mustache bars gave my commuter back when I still had a commute. Lean down into the hooks in the am when I’m running late for work; slip back up to the ends in the pm for a leisurely cruise home.
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I like moustache bars with bar end shifters.
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I ride Nitto Albatross bars on a couple of bikes and have Bossco's with Suntour bar end shifters on my Specialized stumpy with a Paul flat bed rack. I like upright bars enough that I'll probably go all in with them. It doesn't matter if I ride drops or uprights my speed stays the same. Slow.
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Love these bars.
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I am new to mustache bars this year. I bought this Gitane Tour de France over the summer, and swapped out the bars. It is a nice change up from drop bars.
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I use Scott AT4 bars on my SS CX bike.
Re the photo:: I saw the photographer and I gave her a smile, it was also on a climb and being SS I needed two hands on the bars and my arse off the saddle. Talk about timing. Sure enough the snot photo bombed me. Who hasn't had a snotty nose? |
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I've used On One Mary bars for 12 years on rigid mtb's. Much more natural position for the hands than straight mtb bars imo.
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The Surly Open Bar works well for me and I dug out a set of old set of cut-down Specialized bar-ends, placed in-board to make an alternative hand position for steep climbs and chilly descents. I bought a set of Koga Denham bars but realized with the Surly/bar-end combo would suffice.
Last edited by RWL2222; 12-31-2020 at 11:17 AM. |
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Also going to experiment changing the trigger shifters to thumbbies. But I think the cables may get in the way of the inner bar ends. Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk |
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