Riding on the drops

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Dave5N

Über Member
I still maintain if you want to ride a drop bar bike - and I don't mind if you don't, all bikes are good - set it up so the drops are a comfortable place to be. I have my own sciatica issues now which means the bars are higher then my racing position, but I'm still in the hook.
 

bonj2

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Dave5N said:
I'd agree. Sora levers are shoot, except thne reach adjust makes them good for young riders (and they're affordable for parents).

sram have reach adjust as well.
 

peanut

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Dave5N said:
I'd agree. Sora levers are shoot, except thne reach adjust makes them good for young riders (and they're affordable for parents).


please don't be put off Sora levers by this comment. Sora levers are excellent value and very good quality. They are strong reliable and durable and above all they are more straightforward to use for cyclists that are new to lever gear shifts.

I have used 8x and 9x speed and both are comfortable to ride on the hoods. I can brake easily from the hoods and my partner (who has small hands) can also brake without problem .

There is a lot of snobbery in biking just as there is in golf or any other sport. You don't need to spend ridiculous amounts of money on top price 'labels' to get something that is perfectly useable and acceptable.
 

Dave5N

Über Member
peanut said:
please don't be put off Sora levers by this comment. Sora levers are excellent value and very good quality. They are strong reliable and durable and above all they are more straightforward to use for cyclists that are new to lever gear shifts.

I have used 8x and 9x speed and both are comfortable to ride on the hoods. I can brake easily from the hoods and my partner (who has small hands) can also brake without problem .

There is a lot of snobbery in biking just as there is in golf or any other sport. You don't need to spend ridiculous amounts of money on top price 'labels' to get something that is perfectly useable and acceptable.

It's very difficult for ordinary people to use Sora levers from the drops. Which is what this thread is about and you are not.
 

peanut

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Dave5N said:
It's very difficult for ordinary people to use Sora levers from the drops. Which is what this thread is about and you are not.

I was responding to your comment on the quality of Sora levers because I have them and use them and I disagree with your opinion.Your comment wasn't anything to do with using Sora gears from the drops it was about the quality in general . Suggest you read your post and wind ya neck in



The majority of leisure riders do not use the drops. If you watch the T d F on Sky you'll see that elite riders use the hoods most of the time also. It is probably only in sprinting that they get used.

Of course there are always the occasional pedant that thinks that by riding in the drops ,that somehow miraculously transforms them into an elite race rider ho ho:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:
 

Keith Oates

Janner
Location
Penarth, Wales
I ride most of the time on the tops and find the braking is OK but if going fast downhill I go into the drops and consider it's better to have something pushing back at you in the section between forefinger and thumb and the hands feel more secure, if the road is bumpy, as the bars are surrounding the hands, except from the opening towards the back of the bike. I also go into the drops when there is a headwind.
 

bonj2

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peanut said:
The majority of leisure riders do not use the drops. If you watch the T d F on Sky you'll see that elite riders use the hoods most of the time also. It is probably only in sprinting that they get used.

Only generally because they're lazy, and riding on the drops doesn't come naturally to them so they don't bother trying it, as they incorrectly perceive that less upright = less comfortable and less safe, OR, simply *because* of the fact that they've only got sora.
 
The whole drop handlebar problem can be solved in one fell swoop by purchasing a recumbent. I struggled with handlebar position for approximately 38 years before I bought one. Not only am I now extremely comfortable with respect to my hands and arms, but I have no neck/back/shoulder/crotch pains or numbness in my hands. I found that the adjustments that I made on a conventional bike merely meant that it was slightly less uncomfortable, never actually comfortable.
 

bonj2

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xpc316e said:
The whole drop handlebar problem can be solved in one fell swoop by purchasing a recumbent. I struggled with handlebar position for approximately 38 years before I bought one. Not only am I now extremely comfortable with respect to my hands and arms, but I have no neck/back/shoulder/crotch pains or numbness in my hands. I found that the adjustments that I made on a conventional bike merely meant that it was slightly less uncomfortable, never actually comfortable.

But that creates a whole load of other problems.
 

peanut

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Bonj2 is a troll

bonj2 said:
Only generally because they're lazy, and riding on the drops doesn't come naturally to them so they don't bother trying it, as they incorrectly perceive that less upright = less comfortable and less safe, OR, simply *because* of the fact that they've only got sora.

I think you should watch some pro riders when they ride in the peleton all day for hours. You'll not see many in the drops. Obviously you don't ride with any clubs or other riders to have noticed you are the only one riding in the drops :wacko:

people with closed minds and a one track blinkered view of things can't face the possibility they may be wrong or that there may be an alternative . :tongue:

With you Bonj I know you well enough to know that you are one of the worst trolls on CC and a right royal pain in the ass so once again I have been succered into to replying to your silly baitingxx(
 
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