At 12:21 PM 5/24/2001 -0400, TW406@aol.com wrote:
>Is to ride on the tops and levers, not the drops. Been doing it for 30
>years....dah
Okay, okay, I've been dragged me into the OT discussion.
To me, the whole point of raising the bars is that you can get aero in the drops or you can sit up! Most folks I see around here are either doing what you are, i.e. using half their bars, or complaining that those bars are too low. Why have the drops so low that you never use them, and why not have the tops high enough to get tourist-comfy?
My input on a couple of other contentious points (in for a penny...) is
that I think the slightly higher headtube on my Riv (built into the lug)
combined with its slightly sloped top tube is a good look. And I think
"Leave GP out of this, he's not a builder" ignores the very real fact that
he's had an impact on the design consciousness of the industry, and IMHO,
it's all good.
Jeff Slotkin
TheLocalSpoke
Goose Creek, SC