Originally Posted by
Scooby214
Sweet looking bike! Your bike, with the Nexus 8, makes for an easier drop bar conversion than my Oxford. You can get a bar-end shifter for the Nexus 8, a set of drop bars, and road brake levers, and be all set. The brakes on these bikes are ideal for use with road bike brake levers. I used a set of Cane Creek SCR-5 levers, a Nitto Noodle bar, and a Nitto Technomic 26.0 stem to match the bar. I got them all at ebikestop.com for pretty good prices. You can save money by getting a set of 25.4 drop bars from Amazon and using the stem that came on your bike. The Nitto Noodle bar is the most comfortable drop bar I've used so far, so it was worth the extra cost for me. I'd love to eventually put one on my road bike, too.
It's tempting, but one of the main reasons I got it was to have a more upright bike for commuting. My town is very flat, and only about 5 sq miles, so the upright works...except when the wind gets above 25 mph, which is quite often since we're on the coast. But that's why I got the 8-speed - not for the hills, but for the weather.
