The short answer is nothing at all happened, the bike has just been sitting in a corner.
Until today when I resolved to do the 30 minutes of work necessary (cable fitting mostly) to get this thing on the road. And my resolve was undaunted as I was then able to take this out for a short hop on some errands:
The biggest unknown for me was how would the drop bars work. Periodically, I get tempted into making some sort of rugged duty, urban commuter/utility whatever out of a mountain bike. This is all well and good until it comes time to actually ride it and I rapidly lose interest because of the flat bars. I seem to be able to abide flat bars only in a true MTB situation.
So this time I decided to put on some drop bars and while it was only a short ride, I would give the geometry and feel a go at this point.
The stem shifters I installed are fun and quite convenient, but you have to be secure in your manhood (or just plain be in your senescence) to enjoy them:
This bike has bio-pace chain rings. I couldn't really tell any difference in the feel between these and normal chainrings. They still look utterly dorky, though.
Overall, I think the drop bars on this are a winner. I haven't done much else to the bike so far because I wanted to ensure that I was ok with the drop bars before doing much other work.
1 comment:
I love drop bar mtb's. I built my first one in 1994, in honor of John Tomac's bike, from a few years before.
Never ran one with stem shifters, though. I might have to try that out, since i have about 20 of those shifters lying about.
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