Originally Posted by
Bacciagalupe
My Swift is mostly on the sidelines these days, as I'm spending most of my time on my road bike. However, I'm keeping it around mostly for touring (1-2 weeks a year), as a backup bike and shorter rides.
One of the consequences of using the road bike is that I am no longer a big fan of flat bars; on a related note I find the handlebars on the aluminum Swift to transmit a fair amount of the bumps.
As I will be keeping the gears, any thoughts on which (if any) upgrade will work out best for my uses?
And has anyone stuck aero bars onto a 20" wheeled bike?
Definitely DO IT. I love my drop Swift conversion.
You will need:
1. bar-end shifters
2. drop bar
3. travel-agents to allow use of existing v-brakes
4. Cane Creek or other drop brakes.
You can combine 3&4 w/ the
Dia-Compe solution to avoid the TravelAgent mess. It will prob. end up costing around the same.
You should def. be able to do that under 200 assuming all else stays the same.
Note: in my setup, I have a capreo rear hub and using Alex r390 451 wheels w/ regular road brakes (tektro extra-long reach).
