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Old 07-11-13 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by redlude97
The transition may be fine but having the hoods and bars rotated up like that isn't. The ends of the bars are not level, which would make using an aggressive position in the drops pretty dang uncomfortable on the wrists. I see people riding around with this configuration and usually its because they have no idea what they are doing and are just trying to achieve a higher riding position. No good fitter would consider that an appropriate bar angle. If anything the shifters could be moved higher on the hoods, or different bars and/or stem could be used to achieve the same height, but bar rotation isn't the way to achieve that.
Agreed. Looks like the bikeshop just rotated the bars to get some heigh instead of changing the stem or going through the work to move the briftes.
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