• Decided to persevere with the straight bars for now. Going to get some bar ends. Also going to hook up the rear cassette again with rear mech and run the bike in 9spd mode to see how it goes. I will put the front mech on as a way to keep the chain from slipping off the chainring. Probably go for the middle ring for now. Maybe, if 9spd feels good i will stick a single chainring on, either gusset or similar. Exact size, not sure, 36T -40T i think. The SS set up was 40T with a 16T cog at the back.

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