Just bought an immaculate 2004 Volae Century. I like everything about it except the tweener bars. I'm willing to give it 200 miles but my experience with the praying hamster, V-Rex type bars, seems so much more comfortable. For instance, if I keep my thumbs wrapped around the handles at the shifters, my legs brush my thumbnails when I relax and don't pay attention to a perfect straight line as my thighs go back and forth. I have the riser set at max and the angle bolt pretty far out so I can clear with my knees.
Just bought an immaculate 2004 Volae Century. I like everything about it except the tweener bars. I'm willing to give it 200 miles but my experience with the praying hamster, V-Rex type bars, seems so much more comfortable. For instance, if I keep my thumbs wrapped around the handles at the shifters, my legs brush my thumbnails when I relax and don't pay attention to a perfect straight line as my thighs go back and forth. I have the riser set at max and the angle bolt pretty far out so I can clear with my knees.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
I like my "Happy Hamster" bars on my Burley Limbo. I definitely don't like the stiff arm bars that were on my Bike-e. It's a personal preference. I had to adjust the 'riser' length and the tilt back to clear my knees, but they still can touch the brake levers.
On the Limbo the adjustments are many: Riser length, and tilt back (also affects the 'tiller' effect. Bar droop. Shifter and Brake lever position. And then also the seat position affects the knee height.
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Just bought an immaculate 2004 Volae Century. I like everything about it except the tweener bars. I'm willing to give it 200 miles but my experience with the praying hamster, V-Rex type bars, seems so much more comfortable. For instance, if I keep my thumbs wrapped around the handles at the shifters, my legs brush my thumbnails when I relax and don't pay attention to a perfect straight line as my thighs go back and forth. I have the riser set at max and the angle bolt pretty far out so I can clear with my knees.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Steve,
I experienced the thumbnail problem that you describe when I switched the hamster bar on my Rocket to a Bacchetta tweener. The simple solution was to train myself to always grasp the bar with my wrists rotated inward, so that in a relaxed state my thumbs point forward rather than inward.
This also keeps my wrists straight, and seems to be a more natural position.
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Just bought an immaculate 2004 Volae Century. I like everything about it except the tweener bars. I'm willing to give it 200 miles but my experience with the praying hamster, V-Rex type bars, seems so much more comfortable. For instance, if I keep my thumbs wrapped around the handles at the shifters, my legs brush my thumbnails when I relax and don't pay attention to a perfect straight line as my thighs go back and forth. I have the riser set at max and the angle bolt pretty far out so I can clear with my knees.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Steve,
I experienced the thumbnail problem that you describe when I switched the hamster bar on my Rocket to a Bacchetta tweener. The simple solution was to train myself to always grasp the bar with my wrists rotated inward, so that in a relaxed state my thumbs point forward rather than inward.
This also keeps my wrists straight, and seems to be a more natural position.
Just bought an immaculate 2004 Volae Century. I like everything about it except the tweener bars. I'm willing to give it 200 miles but my experience with the praying hamster, V-Rex type bars, seems so much more comfortable. For instance, if I keep my thumbs wrapped around the handles at the shifters, my legs brush my thumbnails when I relax and don't pay attention to a perfect straight line as my thighs go back and forth. I have the riser set at max and the angle bolt pretty far out so I can clear with my knees.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
I find the praying hamster steering to be very twitchy. For some, perhaps that is an advantage. For me, the tweener bars are ultimately what lead me to SWB bikes. I find them much more forgiving particularly on high speed decents.
Just bought an immaculate 2004 Volae Century. I like everything about it except the tweener bars. I'm willing to give it 200 miles but my experience with the praying hamster, V-Rex type bars, seems so much more comfortable. For instance, if I keep my thumbs wrapped around the handles at the shifters, my legs brush my thumbnails when I relax and don't pay attention to a perfect straight line as my thighs go back and forth. I have the riser set at max and the angle bolt pretty far out so I can clear with my knees.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
I find the praying hamster steering to be very twitchy. For some, perhaps that is an advantage. For me, the tweener bars are ultimately what lead me to SWB bikes. I find them much more forgiving particularly on high speed decents.
On a recumbent bicycle with "T" bars, high speed stability can be improved by increasing "tiller", but this will make low speed handling more awkward.
-- Tom Sherman - Behind the Cheddar Curtain Post Free or Die!
On a recumbent bicycle with "T" bars, high speed stability can be improved by increasing "tiller", but this will make low speed handling more awkward.
Hello Tom. Long time no hear. It makes sense to me that by increasing the length of the "tiller", one can "slow down" the responsiveness of the steering thereby making high speed steering feel less twitchy.
