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Conversion of bike?

  • 27-08-2014 10:00am
    #1
    BMKN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭


    Originally my wife had a Carrera vistorousa but hated drops due to pain and position so i got a shop to put giant hybrid bars on it. She has now got hooked on cycling but has issue with changing gears as her thumb is not strong enough for the gears. Now after cycling more and gained more knowledge i know she probably just needed a bike fit. I am gping to switch her to drops. Is it an easy enough job? All i need is shifters and road bar plus new gear cable. As the original breaks r on it


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  • #2
    WillyFXP
    Closed Accounts Posts: 833 ✭✭✭WillyFXP


    BMKN wrote: »
    Originally my wife had a Carrera vistorousa but hated drops due to pain and position so i got a shop to put giant hybrid bars on it. She has now got hooked on cycling but has issue with changing gears as her thumb is not strong enough for the gears. Now after cycling more and gained more knowledge i know she probably just needed a bike fit. I am gping to switch her to drops. Is it an easy enough job? All i need is shifters and road bar plus new gear cable. As the original breaks r on it

    Didn't the shop give you the bars and shifters they took off it?


  • #3
    quozl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    They may also have changed the brakes as road calipers wouldn't work correctly with straight bar brake levers without a travel adjuster, IIRC.


  • #4
    quozl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    It might be easier & cheaper to sell that bike and buy a 2nd hand road-bike.


  • #5
    nak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭nak


    Did your wife try different road bars? I wasn't comfortable on the drops on my WSD Trek because it came with 40cm bars (I use 38s now)and the reach was too long (levers weren't adjustable). There are now more choices of compact road bars with shorter reach and the SRAM and Shimano brake levers on my bikes are reach adjustable fortunately.


  • #6
    crosswords
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 252 ✭✭crosswords


    Have you considered Gripshift?


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