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would like bullhorn bars - advice sought

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  • Started 5 years ago by Moose
  • Latest reply from Baldcyclist

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  1. Moose
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    Looking to tap into the collective knowledge.

    My neighbour has just donated me his steel road bike from the early nineties. He has a plastic steed now.

    it has a quill stem 1" outer and a set of cinelli bars which are narrower than what I am used to. The stem is huge and has a 26mm clamp.

    I have always thought that the setup that mr wingpig rocks in the photo to the right of the forum would be nice to try and now I have a project...

    So what next? I would like to go wider than the 40 cm bars that are on it, so chopping them down and flipping them wouldn't be my first choice. BUt it may come to that.

    I am thinking that I could get away with using the existing levers.

    Anyone got experiences of trying and liking / not liking?
    Is this the sort of thing the bikestation would be good for?
    Buying online I would be in it for about £60 which feels a bit much particularly if they are likely at all to get consigned to the parts bin.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  2. wingpig
    Member

    I initially tried some bullhorns from the Bike Station which appeared to be converted and inverted drops - they worked fine to prove the concept but I was nervous that the aftermarket cable-holes might have introduced some weakness, so bought some much stronger-feeling Zenit horns which had the additional advantage of having enough length in the straight bit at the end for bar-end shifters. I initially tried brifters as brake-only levers, then some Dia Compe spindly-looking things which worked OK but couldn't pull enough for Vs, then some hooded Dia Compe things, then some Tektro which were much better.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  3. Moose
    Member

    thank you sir. I decided that I will copy your approach and see if I can get something low cost together. Then if it proves itself I can invest further. Bars now flipped, new cabling run, but caliper brake has slowed progress due to the spring not quite working as it should...

    Posted 5 years ago #

  4. wingpig
    Member

    A-ha: there is a thread:

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5423

    I suspected I'd moved to horns whilst still on a caliper'd frame but couldn't remember exactly. The brifters I started on the horns with had their own return spring, but not the frog-leggy DiaCompes. I also forgot I'd tried a set of Charge horns whose internal diameter was too narrow for bar-end shifters.

    I'll see which levers I still have - there was one set which had their own ping-back spring which I might not yet have donated to the Bike Station.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  5. Baldcyclist
    Member

    I used to use bullhorns with bar end gear leavers and tried a number of braking solutions, and never really found anything which stopped me as well as combined shift/break lever. So I've just recently reverted back to curly bars.

    Posted 5 years ago #

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