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Convert Flat Handlebar with Bar-End Drops

  • 08-05-2011 08:06PM
    #1
    mgmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭


    I have a flat handlebar road bike. I was looking at a couple of cycling clubs and their club policy requires mandatory drop handlebars. For those in the know would using bar-end drops be suitable? A proper conversion costs a fortune, these drops cost about 30euro.



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Comments

  • #2
    robertxxx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭robertxxx


    Thats just snobbery if you ask me.


  • #3
    cyco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭cyco


    Frustrating and expensive but there is a good reason. If you're riding close together and the bars touch, drops don't tend to get tangled and separate easily enough whereas flat bars get tangled more easily affecting the steering and throwing you off the bike...

    Bit plenty people turn up here looking to swap one set up for the other or selling the fill set up off cheap. Only the brakes/shifters are expensive. There was a set for 50 recently on the cycling ads forum. Other cheap alternatives could use bar end shifters or down tube shifters. They're much cheaper and work great.


  • #4
    mgmt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭mgmt


    Yeah, you could buy a bike for the price it costs to convert properly. I think perhaps getting drop handle-bars and just buying simple drop brake-levers and leaving the gears as per the flat-bar, will work out fairly cheap.


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