useing bar ends as hoods
 

i recently purchased a fisher dual sport 229 and have been working on hand/arm comfort by switching various bar and stem combo's. its close now, but on todays ride i began to wonder if i might get more out of it if i had hoods to ride. has anyone here tried useing stubby bar ends as hoods on a flatbar?

Yep, me.

I use long bar ends and even **** them in tape. Toolish perhaps, but my comfort is paramount.

er, wrap --- I'm hooked on fonics :D

Isn't that illegal? :p

I had my Trek 520 converted from drop bars to flat bars with medium-length bar ends. I wrapped (note spelling) the bar ends with a split innertube then covered that with electrical tape. Not pretty, but fairly comfortable. I have the bar ends pointing up slightly, with the curved ends pointing up and in.

well
 

i put the bar ends that came with the bike(cane creek ergos) back on and they do in fact work like hoods on a road bike. sorta. they attatch to the ends of the handlebars and that spreads my arms way out. what i had in mind when i started this post was to ask what you would think of putting bar ends more on the inside of the handlebar, say just past the shifting/ braking mechanisms. i am useing easton monkey riser bars and theres room up there for them. has anyone positioned them this way?

Try it out and let us know how it goes. I had the idea of doing the same at one point, but there's precious little room on my handlebars as it is.

I commute on a MTB with bar ends and I just wrap (!) my forefinger and thumb around the base, much like using the hoods on a drop bar (except the flat bars are generally wider) and ride like that on occasion. Therefore it doesn't matter if your bar ends are stubby or 10' long.

Jay

bar ends as hoods: problem solved
 

what i did was cut an inch off each end of the handelbar and put the cane creek bar ends on. i installed them so that they were almost horizontal, and it worked really well. i just finished a metric, which was a combination of dirt/gravel and fairly bad county roads, and have no hand buzz to report. not a trace all day!