@igor - is the new polished dropper a Satori?
wait wat
Modulation is in the hand of the user. I like direct feedback
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hey @igor- not new per se but can you confirm where the reach measurement is taken from and how wide at the hoods and tails the 44 nuevo randeaux bar is? i had dismissed due to 12deg flare, but after looking on whatbars vs a cowbell it looks like it might be the absolute perfect thing. sweepy tops, enough space for hands on ramps, flared but not more than 50cm on center at the tails for a 44
at a given size the cowbells look longer reach (from stem) narrower at the hoods, and wider at the drops than your offering- is that an artifact of whatbars or does that ring true?
Sure, just said what works for me. I prefer the lever feel, feels like less work on my hands.
The width is measured C-C of the hoods. I’ll double check the width at the tails, but here is the description from the blog post we published when they landed:
Measuring the reach of this bar is a bit tricky. The ramps are 105mm in length, but since the tops sweep back, the traditional reach measurement (originating from the stem clamp to the edge of the ramp) is more like 85mm. In total, this means the ramps are long enough for a resting position behind the shifter hood for cruising, but short enough to easily reach the hood for shifting, braking, and out-of-the-saddle efforts without resorting to extreme stem lengths which could affect handling.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. yes
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gotcha. i’m thinking whatbars may be leading me astray here.
if what i’m seeing is true though, thems the bars for me, for at least 66% of my drop bar bikes
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is this the Brand X post?
Have any tarck tube dead enders fucked with tubolito? Seems like a really cheap way to shave grams from wheels. Is there something wrong with em?
A buddy got some for the Japanese Odyssey, but then couldn’t get patches. Apparently he also blew one up outside of a tire, which is bad, caused a deformity in it. Very expensive here. He would probably recommend as a spare but not as a day to day ride, which was what he did.
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Of the many reasons I love hydraulic brakes, being able to use a single finger on my drop bar bike and mtb when I want to is nice. Being female, I have smaller hands than most bike component designers and users and even lever adjustment can’t fully make up for male-centric component designs. Cable actuated discs can require quite a lot of force to get good braking power out of, good hydros take very little force.
We did an upgrade from hayes shitty mechanical disc brakes to hydros for a female customer who was having hand pain from braking (she lives at the top of a very big hill, with stop lights all the way down - QA for thems in seattle). Gave her a lot more confidence on her bike.
Oh, that makes sense. I must admit I don’t know how well any of my disco brakes would work with one-finger braking, because many years of crappy old single-pull calipers/canti brakes/compressionful brake housing trained me to grab the brakes with every finger I can spare.
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They’re just preparing us for 650b fat tire fixie lyfe.
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Shoulda just made the pokes a little wider and it grips on them and ditch those bars
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Am I seeing things, or are those logos kinda poorly photoshopped on?
I have never so much wanted the UCI to arbitrarily change a rule and ban something.
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