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Old 02-22-22 | 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by mechanicmatt
I guess I should admit I am not much of a tourer, however I have ridden many miles with this bar including up the going to the sun road in glacier. It works fine. I think it would be an excellent setup if I could get some of those clamp style thumb mounts and mount them on the inside of the bullhorns. Then I think it would be super sweet. Because kind of a natural position other than at the ends of the bar and on the bullhorns, is in that crook between those two spots. Which kind of makes a nice third handlebar position. So if money was no object, and parts scarcity didn't exist, I might get some of those rivendale clamps, velo orange clamps, or Paul thumb shifter clamps and then you would be able to mount them on the inside. They are sort of advertised so that the inside of the bull horns is another position, but I found myself rarely using it and instead sort of used the three hand positions I described above.

All that said it rides just fine, I thought it was weird too but I am a bit thumb shifter obsessed and really don't want to use trigger or grip shift. I very very much like the bars though.
It's cool I am kinda not much of a tourer these days anyway. I wish I looked at the weather more in advance I could have done a little short trip over the weekend.

Paul Thumbies are probably your easiest to get bet these days they are taking some time with stuff but they are U.S. production so at least you don't need to send them overseas and go through ports and customs and what not just wait to be created and shipped.
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