mitchibob
Über Member
- Location
- Treorchy, Wales
I'm reaching here I think. It's just that while recovering from recent injury, I had excuse to fit some cheap aero bars to my road bike to take pressure off my wrist during turbo sessions, and last weekend, got to try them outside for the first time. I only really used into the headwind bits around Regents Park, but felt like I was cheating in terms of effort to maintain speed. I'd been wanting to try these sort of bars ever since the 1989 TdF final TT and fully understand why Greg Lemond used them, and don't fully understand why Chris Froome would take hand off at speed he was doing to blow his nose.
Of course, immediately got me thinking that my Brommie is still my most practical long distance bike, and headwinds are a nightmare, so, are there clip on aero-bars that'll neatly fold up or something, so as not to destroy a brommie fold? I mean, I've seen some interesting variety of handlebars on this forum for brommies over the years, so I figure this is a good place to ask.
I should add, mine now has S-bars, so issues of fitting around various M-bars wouldn't be issue. Plus fully expecting the silliness in answers this question gets.
(cue great pictures of interesting handlebars on brommies!)
Of course, immediately got me thinking that my Brommie is still my most practical long distance bike, and headwinds are a nightmare, so, are there clip on aero-bars that'll neatly fold up or something, so as not to destroy a brommie fold? I mean, I've seen some interesting variety of handlebars on this forum for brommies over the years, so I figure this is a good place to ask.
I should add, mine now has S-bars, so issues of fitting around various M-bars wouldn't be issue. Plus fully expecting the silliness in answers this question gets.
(cue great pictures of interesting handlebars on brommies!)
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