Bar ends yay or nay?

[ThePrivateer]

There were some quite nasty looking ones, I have to say - e.g. the long ones with an almost 90 degree curve. The more adventurous riders mount them pointed towards them, for a more upright riding position

 

[retrobiker273891]

There were some quite nasty looking ones, I have to say - e.g. the long ones with an almost 90 degree curve. The more adventurous riders mount them pointed towards them, for a more upright riding position

The ones not bothered about rib impacts?

 

[retrobiker273891]

agree 100% - they really do massively improve the range of available had positions on narrow flat bars. Work better on the road TBH than proper MTB stuff. The ones with a slight but not pronounced curve at tbe ends are my favourite style:

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Call me unfashionable but I also think they enhance the look of those sorts of cockpits- on riser bars they look terrible though

These are the ones I have gone with mostly due to circumstance of what was offered to me but, having used the big L ones in the old days I do seem to recall that beyond the curve was not used that much and would mainly just grab at the angle so the extra metal was mostly redundant. These ones seem to offer the ideal of not too short and not too long.

 

[moonlite]

This guy's definitely a 'yay' on the bar end question . . .

 

[retrobiker273891]

This guy's definitely a 'yay' on the bar end question . .

haha, diy drop bars.

 

[al-onestare]

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SRAM flat bar shifters on drop bars, it seems to work

The reason for this is because the sti brake shifters didnt work well with V brakes so I wanted to use Tektro drop bar levers for V brakes which are great. The other option would have been bar end shifters but WHERE WOULD I PUT MY MIRROR ????? so removed the steel band from the clamp and they...

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Mudguards....do you use them ?

I have never had a bike without full mudguard fitted (apart from the 2 times I rode the Dartmoor Classic when I owned a Felt road bike). I go out off-road with a bunch of guys now and again and am the only one that uses full fitted mudguards and the only one that doesnt get covered in crud, I...

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Gravel bike packing, its all done wrong IMO

So this new trend for "bike packing" with no mudguards, no front or rear carrier and silly bags dangling off the toptube and sprouting out of the back of the saddle, all the weight up high where you dont want it, then you get splattered with crud due to the lack of mudguards. Surely the proper...

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Why can I buy 3x8 brake shifters for flat bars for £14 but.............................

Shimano 3x8 rapidfire brake shifters that last for years £14 (just bought some) and yet the same thing for drop bars is £100 or even more, technically no more to them so why is that ??

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Mangizmos "Rant Of The Day"

Fistly I must say that I have no desire to start arguments or bickering with this thread, its light hearted and tongue in cheek and aimed at prompting discussion, this is after all "Retrobike", but I just see so many trends in modern cycling that are pure expensive marketing gimmicks and new...

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Someone run an IP check!

 

[retrobiker273891]

You are @Mangizmo and I claim the internet

This incessant hounding of my posts is getting out of hand.

You and several others have put 2+2 together and made 5 and created some conspiracy theory and are now stuck in confirmation bias.

I will simply leave if you all will keep harassing me like this and I am sure you will be happy. It begins to outweigh the helpful posts.

Yes I post a lot. Yes I am obsessive about things I like. No it doesn't mean I am some nefarious 'sock puppet' account of some aggrieved old user. I guess little I can write will change the people's minds who have already decided this and anything more I say is 'further proof'.