Hi!
Should I stick with dropped bars or change to flat bars? I bought a 2nd hand racing bike a few years ago and really haven’t got to grips with the dropped bars. 30 years of BMX, Sturmey Archer and mountain bikes have made me a bit set in my ways!
I’m now going to buy a new cyclocross bike through work and am contemplating asking the supplier to replace the dropped bars with flat bars with a forward curve at each end – think these are a type of tri-bar actually. This would hopefully give me better brake control and more importantly more confidence!
Does anyone have any good reason not to do this? Is it a straightforward job?
Anyone got any ideas of which bike to get? The Cannondale Caadx6 looks nice…
Alternatively I could stick with my racing bike for a bit, upgrade the tyres and convert it to flat bars and use that as a cyclocross bike just to find out if it's really what I want...
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Vulch
Should I stick with dropped bars or change to flat bars? I bought a 2nd hand racing bike a few years ago and really haven’t got to grips with the dropped bars. 30 years of BMX, Sturmey Archer and mountain bikes have made me a bit set in my ways!
I’m now going to buy a new cyclocross bike through work and am contemplating asking the supplier to replace the dropped bars with flat bars with a forward curve at each end – think these are a type of tri-bar actually. This would hopefully give me better brake control and more importantly more confidence!
Does anyone have any good reason not to do this? Is it a straightforward job?
Anyone got any ideas of which bike to get? The Cannondale Caadx6 looks nice…
Alternatively I could stick with my racing bike for a bit, upgrade the tyres and convert it to flat bars and use that as a cyclocross bike just to find out if it's really what I want...
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Vulch