Originally Posted by
tFUnK
Nice! Only thing I'd do differently would be to use a more townie-like bar with more sweep and ditch the bar ends but that looks like it should be a fun ride.
I don't like bars with sweep and without bar ends my hands cramp too quickly. I need the added
positions they provide. I wish I could have been more inventive but the townie bars are too difficult to climb with on our hills. From my house, it's 390 feet to the bottom of the hill. About 3/4 mile in distance. With that kind of elevation gain for "errands", I need to be able to use my arm/chest muscles to brace my legs while grinding out the pace which means hands on the grips or ends and lots of tugging.
Anyway, a lot of choices were for purely practical reasons. At heart I'm a road rider and I finally found the stretch* I needed by going 20mm longer on the stem, dropping 10mm in stack height, and flat bars with minimal sweep.
Thanks for the compliments!
* I think I must have long arms for my height.