80's roadie position?
04-28-09 | 07:37 PM
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80's roadie position?
For those of you who have modern road bikes and an 80's racing bike, is your position set up differently? Specifically with brake levers with less reach and less flat tops on handlebars how does that affect you posiition.
04-28-09 | 08:54 PM
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Bikes: '80 Masi Gran Criterium, '12 Trek Madone, early '60s Frejus track
Reach and drop to the brake levers and the drops are about the same, but overall, the contemporary bar is mounted lower and it has less drop. Both my old bars (Cinelli 66s) and new bars (Reynolds "non-anatomic") have a fairly short reach. This means I'm only lower when I'm riding the tops.
The old style of riding on the hoods involved a kind of draping action of the hands over the top curve of the bar. It was OK but new is better.
The old style of riding on the hoods involved a kind of draping action of the hands over the top curve of the bar. It was OK but new is better.
04-29-09 | 04:12 AM
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The dimensions are fairly equal, from saddle to bar to bb.
I can drop my modern bike bar a little lower because it has a smaller curl (shorter drop).
My 80's bikes, in the proper frame size, fit about the same way. Some are too big and I'm limited a bit as far as adjustment.
I can drop my modern bike bar a little lower because it has a smaller curl (shorter drop).
My 80's bikes, in the proper frame size, fit about the same way. Some are too big and I'm limited a bit as far as adjustment.
04-29-09 | 04:14 AM
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