managing expectations swapping out flat bars for riser bars
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- in this episode we do a super simple bar swap! just loosen a few bolts, swap the bars and tighten them back up! right, nope! simple things aren't that simple sometimes.
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This video hit close to home. I have a 1989 Bridgestone MB-2, which I just took off the carriage barn wall, to use this Spring. I remembered my conversation with my mechanic about changing the bars, and he said basically your conclusion. $$$ Now that I live in a bike mechanic wasteland, I wish I had told him to go ahead. Great video, and I enjoy your hunts for quality parts. That Bridgestone frame with the sparkle paint... someone had dreams for that bike.😍
I have that handlebar, my favourite for old MTBs that need more stack height. It comes painted black. Wald 8038GB.
Nice, I liked it🎉
Made this upgrade myself a few months ago. I only needed to raise the bar a couple inches, but getting the grips raked backwards is amazing. Actually flat, flat bars are awful.
Couldn't agree more! Why do so many bikes come with flat bars! It's almost like doing everything the worst way possible is the bike industry's goal!😅
@starmichaelbuilds Possibly because of your conclusions in the video. It costs as much to fix the bike to fit properly as it does to buy it in the first place. Maybe they're intentionally trying to "double dip" at our wallets?
In any case, my next bikes are going to be built up from frames. I'm only paying for the parts once and getting the fit right the first time around.
I wasn't going to say that, but totally agree, lol. Although I think it's usually cheaper to buy a whole bike than do a piece meal build. I'll often get a frame I like and buy a whole used bike that has most of what I want on it and buy it for the parts and swap them over. Way way cheaper than buying one thing at a time and a lot faster.
When I was building custom bikes for people with all new parts the bills got over 8k almost every time. I spent a year hourding used parts before building mine and had maybe $1500 onto it 😜
@@starmichaelbuilds Thank you for the advice. I'm looking for the Microshift Sword 2x10 groupset for one of my bikes. I have not found a bike that comes with this set yet, but I'll keep looking.
The second bike I have in mind is a high power ebike on a custom frame, so I'm already prepared for getting the parts one at a time and at a higher cost with that one.
Flat bars on inexpensive bikes are very much a cost saving measure. It's convenient for the factories. Most hybrids and such would benefit from a bar that sweeps back significantly, like the North Roads bars found on an English three speed, yet they don't. It's even more common on inexpensive ebikes to use flat bars or something with a little rise at most, when the people buying them would benefit greatly from something that sweeps back.
I guess a decent swept handlebar requires too much imagination for the people picking out how their bike range is going to be. The very existence of the "comfort bike" is an insult to the bikes of many decades prior where comfort was the default option, and done to a much better standard than a hybrid or inexpensive mountain bike with a suspension fork and a tall stem.
...Dutch bikes should exist in more places than just Dutchland.
I mostly agree. I think flat bars are as much about making bikes look like sporty mountain bikes, and not like "girls" old cruises bikes. Also Dutch bikes are the opposite end of the pendulum swing and kinda totally crazy too! Hybrids are actually a pretty rad best of all worlds kind of bike really, mostly, except where they cheap out and that they're not sexy like a performance bike.