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On Oct 11, 7:53*pm, Chalo wrote:
Michael Press wrote: *landotter wrote: Using drop bars on utility bikes is a strange affectation. Calling someone's choice an affectation says everything about how you feel, and nothing about the choice. Spoken like someone who'd put drop bars on a wheelbarrow or a shopping cart. The right tool for the job is just that. *"The job", for most drop bar users, evidently is playing make-believe. Chalo LET ME BUTTIN here sans reading...riding a grocery loaded japanese sport tourer '78 converted to 2010, pedalling standing is de riguer so drops but Harrys frame ??? turning is priority not straight ahead speed tho we need a Harry report on climbing with beans. trekking bars are uh an akchoired taste - TB's are awkward and can break a bone in there. I have TB, don't like it, but continue looking for a good reason to keep it. Like there's gotta be a good reason uh like O/D |
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James wrote: Chalo wrote: James wrote: landotter wrote: James wrote: Again with the personal preference, I'd want handle bars that offer various hand positions. Drop bars are the ticket. Fitting the controls from that bike to drop bars might prove a challenge. Trekking bars offer tons of hand positions and use strong and inexpensive mtb components. Using drop bars on utility bikes is a strange affectation. BTW, dropbars on a MTB is not strange to everyone.. http://twentynineinches.com/2010/05/...f-road-on-set-... And what is a "utility bike"? Something to do the shopping with? Carrying stuff on racks? A touring bike is not much different, yet those in the touring club I used to ride with all used dropbars. Did you look at the link to the Trek bike in question? Yes. My words for using drop bars on such a bike would be a lot less charitable than "strange affectation". Opinions are like arse holes, everybody has got one. and ... ??? everybody thinks everybody else's stinks. -- Michael Press |
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, Chalo wrote: Michael Press wrote: Â*landotter wrote: Using drop bars on utility bikes is a strange affectation. Calling someone's choice an affectation says everything about how you feel, and nothing about the choice. Spoken like someone who'd put drop bars on a wheelbarrow or a shopping cart. The right tool for the job is just that. "The job", for most drop bar users, evidently is playing make-believe. More feelings posing as a well taken position. -- Michael Press |
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:53:32 -0700 (PDT), Chalo
wrote: Spoken like someone who'd put drop bars on a wheelbarrow or a shopping cart. Actually, I like one flat bar on my shopping carts, and two almost-horizontal almost-parallel-to-the-direction-of-travel bars on my wheelbarrow. Drop bars take a little getting used to, but I wouldn't have anything else on a road bike. When I'm reduced to a crank-forward bike -- statistics say that will be in ten years, twenty at most -- I'll probably prefer upright bars. When I get a backache so bad I use a walker, there's nothing better for it than to ride on drop bars -- it keeps the back muscles in motion without putting any strain on them. (I got one of those the day I was scheduled to lead a casual ride -- my riders thought I was really energetic because I rode in circles during rest stops and never got off the bike.) Unlike you, however, I'm aware that there are people whose backaches are exacerbated by bending forward. I don't go around calling them delusional because they use methods that are best for them, and should I have occasion to offer to let one of them use my walker, I won't run in circles calling him dirty names if he explains that the walker doesn't fit. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net |
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Joy Beeson wrote:
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:53:32 -0700 (PDT), Chalo wrote: Spoken like someone who'd put drop bars on a wheelbarrow or a shopping cart. Actually, I like one flat bar on my shopping carts, and two almost-horizontal almost-parallel-to-the-direction-of-travel bars on my wheelbarrow. Wheelbarrow almost with drop bars ;-) http://www.phototravels.net/japan/pc...kshaw-84.3.jpg -- JS. |
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