Timeline for How to use drop handlebars properly?
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| Oct 3, 2020 at 9:22 | comment | added | ojs | @WeiwenNg the change happened at some point in 90s. I wrote about it here: bicycles.stackexchange.com/questions/46810/… | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 18:34 | comment | added | Weiwen Ng | @ojs when you say that, do you mean older levers for road bikes in general? thinking back to an old 10 speed I had, you're right about that bike, but it was lower end. I don't really recall any issues braking hard from the hoods since I started serious road cycling in 2001, but I could have a bad memory. | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 6:31 | comment | added | ojs | @WeiwenNg yes, they're the same thing. Obviously they weren't marketed as suicide levers. The lever pivot geometry has also change since then, with the old levers it was difficult to brake from the hoods. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 21:04 | comment | added | Weiwen Ng | @VladimirF is referring to a specific variant of the hoods position, which is usually called the aero hoods position. He is correct that it's more aero than the drops. However, amateur athletes don't seem to use it much, even the competitively-oriented riders I've seen. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 21:03 | comment | added | Weiwen Ng | FYI to all: a synonym for what juhist and Tod call the corners of the bars is the ramps. This may just not be well known, but Velo Orange isn't the only party I've heard use this term. velo-orange.com/pages/drop-handlebar-selection Also, some parties separate the drops into the hooks (curved part, close to the brake levers) and the rest of the drops. Users can certainly make use of both, even if just to vary the hand position. Also, @ojs may be thinking of suicide levers, which truly were terrible - functional bar top levers exist but are quite rare. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 18:45 | comment | added | ojs | @VladimirF you should take into account that the last time this poster saw a bike was in the 80s. Back then the extension levers that allowed braking from tops were terrible and used only on BSOs. Yes, there were road BSOs at the time. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 18:35 | comment | added | Vladimir F Героям слава | Also, modern resesrch shows that hoods, when held in an aero way (forearms horizontal, elbow inward) are more aero than the drops. Finally, the hands should never be totally straight on the hoods, but slightly bent. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 18:31 | comment | added | Vladimir F Героям слава | The second set of brskes is not for cheap bicycles, it is for cyclocross racing and more recently for gravel bicycles. The tops position is used by some riers to negotiate certain types of terrain. Tje tops position is also often used when climbing steep hills while still sitting. Even by professional ridirs and climbing specialists. It is far from useless. | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 18:18 | history | answered | juhist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |