Originally Posted by
kmv2
No offence, never quite understood this config. Why not just leave the drop bars as is,
with bullhorns you're just putting the curve of the bar where the hoods originally were..
with regular drops you could simply ride on the brake lever hoods and you don't have
to "access them" in an emergency because they are already in your hand.
Hi,
On the hoods I simply could not get any decent purchase on the brakes. Might be
different with compact bars, but the way the bike came the levers were difficult in
general to reach, and TBH I didn't fancy riding around town on the drops just to
have good control of the brakes.
Its no big loss, the bars I've cut down are cheap steel ones, which no-one
would really want, and if I go back to drops, pretty sure I'd be going compact.
FWIW the gear changers are butterfly types in the centre of the bars, the
set up matches my bar-ended folder reasonably well, but only time will
tell if I'll feel the need for some drops in the long run.
rgds, sreten.
edit : with the drops the brake levers are near vertical,
bullhorns about 30 degrees back, and with the bullhorns
the hoods are still quite useable for a stretched position,
I can get all my fingers on the top of the brake lever.
Normal position is easy two fingered, end of the levers,
and that is the very big difference between the types.