Trekking bars: dumbest bars ever
12-19-17, 03:47 PM
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12-19-17, 05:28 PM
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Here's mine.....
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12-20-17, 09:25 PM
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All bars are awful! In fact all bikes are awful. We should ride unicycles instead, no need for bars, stems, brake levers, shifters or toptubes!
Pound Sign: Bikes Suck Pound Sign: All you need is one!
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12-21-17, 11:28 AM
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OMG....It's hilarious to see all the arguments over handlebars. Must be drops, or flats or this or that........
Just going to sit back and laugh. You all are hilarious!!!!!!
I'm just going to go riding and heck if others like what I ride.......
Just going to sit back and laugh. You all are hilarious!!!!!!
I'm just going to go riding and heck if others like what I ride.......
02-18-18, 01:05 AM
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my trekking bar setup- $10 bar extender for the clamps and a piece of 7/8 copper pipe, cheaper than thumbies and puts the shifters right in the middle.
I'd post images but can't
I'd post images but can't
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02-18-18, 04:51 AM
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I've always loved the idea of trekking bars for touring as is common in Europe, even though I also enjoy our own culture of using drop bars for the same. I have some nice dropbars with flared drops, super comfortable. Ride whatever makes you happy, but ride.
02-18-18, 11:16 AM
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My stepfather bought a bike for my Mom. It was his dream to ride the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage in Galicia. He's Roman Catholic, my Mom is Methodist. He's a biking enthusiast who commuted to work at the State Department in the 80s on a recumbent he built himself (an Easy Racer, build from Chrome-Moly - he did a terrific job). Mom is... neither a gear-head, nor so much athletically inclined. Step-dad proceeded with plans. So they got to in Spain, and started. Mom hated it. The hills were too much, the seat hurt her heinie. Couldn't do it. So they sent the bikes back and walked some of the thing and bussed the rest. So point one is: don't let your enthusiasms (or antipathies) keep you from understanding the other person's view.
In any case, the bike hung in our garage from about 1996 til last year. Mom gave it to my wife. It had trekking bars. She hated them. I'm not a big fan. But fietsbob has posted a lot of thoughtful things here that I've learned from. So point two is: just because others like, or market, or hate a specific technical approach does not mean you have to like it, or to buy it, or to dislike it.
The trekking bars made my wife's hands really hurt (carpal tunnel, she thinks, and she's a Physical Therapist, so I suspect she's spot on). But that's for her hands. I got her fairly straight bars and put Ergon handles and bar-ends on them, and she likes that set-up much better. But I suspect that there's some folks whose hands hurt with straight bars and for whom trekking bars saved the day.
Not ever technical innovation is a good one, even from "primo" manufacturers. Campagnolo Delta brakes, for example.
02-19-18, 09:02 AM
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working out well for me on this bike.
But, I'm old, the bike is old, and I probably don't know enough to know better
But, I'm old, the bike is old, and I probably don't know enough to know better
02-20-18, 02:20 AM
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02-20-18, 06:42 AM
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I asked my trekking bars a series of simple questions about history, math, and geography ... the bars couldn't answer a one of them---they couldn't even guess.
Dumbest bars ever.
Dumbest bars ever.
02-20-18, 10:13 AM
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02-20-18, 10:50 PM
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Here's some trekking bars on my Krampus. Not the brightest set of bars ever, I admit. Highly functional though.
02-21-18, 04:58 AM
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I put a set on an old Trek 930. They work fine. My only “complaint” was that they were wider than the drop bars I use on just about everything else. But that was a small thing.
02-21-18, 05:48 AM
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Seeing the bikes on this thread makes me want to build a bike with a set of taking bars! Some nice looking bars on this thread.
02-21-18, 07:43 PM
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Yeah, you’re wrong. As soon as I get around to it, a disc trucker with trekking bars is on the menu. If you don’t have three good hand positions with them (at least), you’ve set them up wrong.
02-21-18, 08:42 PM
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Mr. Bandai , after reading all posts in response to your vent as you put it , and with the overall consensus of this forum we have to inform you that it has been overruled and leading to the only determination that is simply put,,, you're a weenie , no other reasons will be given,,,,,,
03-25-18, 12:53 PM
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Since this turned into a show-off-your-trekking-bars thread, here are the ones that have been torturing me senseless. I really can't stand all the hand positions and real estate they offer me. Being able to bring what I need and stay comfortable during long bike rides is really killing me.
03-25-18, 01:59 PM
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Since this turned into a show-off-your-trekking-bars thread, here are the ones that have been torturing me senseless. I really can't stand all the hand positions and real estate they offer me. Being able to bring what I need and stay comfortable during long bike rides is really killing me.
