Originally Posted by
Yoshi
I have them and I HATE them. Well, that's not true. I had them on my commuter for awhile but I found the "drop" to be uncomfortable. There basically isn't much of a flat portion to the bar so you'll end up holding onto the bends which hurt your hands after awhile (or you can hold onto the flat part right at the stem, but I don't like that either).
Also if you wrap the bars with non-sticky wrap (like Cinelli cork) and you ride with your hands on the bends, the wrap will start to slip off. It's really really annoying.
You must have super huge hands if you don't have 4 different super roomy hand positions on these. I have been using non sticky tape for the last 6 times I've wrapped bars and never had any tape slip.
Originally Posted by
Yoshi
Uh, yes it will.
For about the first two years I was riding I had someone who reportedly was an excellent bar wrapper do it for me for fear or screwing it up myself. Everyone made it seem incredibly hard. One day I just took a shot at wrapping and didn't have any problems. It was non sticky cork tape, and after about 10 careful minutes, it was flawlessly wrapped and I've never had any slip since. I think people are just afraid to pull too tight when wrapping, and therefore screw up countless rolls of tape.