Hand positions on drop bars

Jammy, don't take this any other way than how it sounds...

If you know nothing about riding road bikes, you won't need to worry about riding brakeless. You'll have a set of hoods to chill on, until you find it comfortable to make amendments

right?
(just agree, or you'll get flamed.....)

Jammy, don't take this any other way than how it sounds...

If you know nothing about riding road bikes, you won't need to worry about riding brakeless. You'll have a set of hoods to chill on, until you find it comfortable to make amendments

right?
(just agree, or you'll get flamed.....)

Oh, too true!
Was more of a pointless pondering. Though I was considering just a front brake on my road bike project when I get it moving, so I suppose I'd have to go with a "dummy" handle on the other side.

shimano brake levers, with the left lever punched out of the hood so it don't rattle. (essentially making a cheap dummy hood)

I ride track drops, in town i keep my hands on the tops mostly, so i can look over/ through wind screens, I don't have hoods, but use the top of the curved bit quite allot, i also use the drops, and the flat bits on the bottom, on the velodrome, on climbs, or out of town.

does anyone know of an online punctuation and correct English service?
where you can write your post and it re-organises it for you?
i'm obviously not getting the hang of this writtin stuff down as it is in my head
and it really gets on peoples tits.

ahem

There, that wasn't difficult, was it*.

• note the absence of question mark here. A rhetorical statement, clearly, but possibly also a sign that the speaker of the utterance has a healthy baseline psychological security, something that may be a result of refusing to join the masses who willingly take their consumer medicine (prescribed by an insidious political and economic spectre) instead of reflecting on the emotional ills that sicken their souls and obscure their true identities. The voice is a powerful instrument, but it never lies.
  

Muteist!

I took the effort of sharing my hand positions, not an experienced roadie but ive enjoyed using drop bars on my fixed bike and these are the positions I tend to use. my bars are the same width as my hips by the way.

1. Large Majority of 'active' riding, kind of like a steering wheel.
   

2. Tend to switch to holding bars near to stem when I get longer uninterrepted flat stretches where steering is not required.
   

3. When requiring a burst of speed from riding pos.1 to get up a shallow gradient I tend to move my hand further up the bars. If I need to do a quick sprint I stand up, rock the bike side, pumping bmx stylee whilst holding bars near the top-front.
   

4. When trying to get up very long very steep hills I use the lower part of the bend in the drop, I stand up, lean foward but keep the bike still trying to pedal consistently.
   

5. On long rides, when im in 'the zone' not really worrying about steering. Just rest my hands on the tops.
   

6. [forgot to take a pic] On the rare ocassions when someone asks for a 'race to the lights' I use the bottom flat parts of the drops, stay seated, try to max the rpm! Thats the only time I use the actual drops whilst seated.

ott

weirdo

ott

my handlbars and camera were on my desk, what can i say... possibly useful to the OP?

muteist!

Shut up!

i find the whole concept of asking someone a personal question weird, hold how it feels comfortable for yourself

its like asking [ame="http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=465348"]how wide do i cut my bars[/ame]

Mr Fanny pack how often do you moisturise those hands? A little work on those nails and you could do commercials?

(rhetorical)

i find the whole concept of asking someone a personal question weird, hold how it feels comfortable for yourself

its like asking how wide do i cut my bars

Or whats the best bike for me...........................................

i find the whole concept of asking someone a personal question weird, hold how it feels comfortable for yourself

its like asking how wide do i cut my bars

I'm glad I've asked people some personal questions, for example, ones about intermittent intense pain in my right testicle that led to emergency surgery that was about 15 years overdue.

But I agree with you about the OP. It would be like me asking how I should hold my cock when masturbating.

i'm with deadlyfannypack on number 1 and 2. position # 1 was just how i held the bars when i started riding. comfortable, easy steering, and kinda feels like i have more control. # 2 when i'm just going with the flow... when i'm climbing (especially standing up and climbing) - # 1. whatev

I'm glad I've asked people some personal questions, for example, ones about intermittent intense pain in my right testicle that led to emergency surgery that was about 15 years overdue.

But I agree with you about the OP. It would be like me asking how I should hold my cock when masturbating.

maybe the asking the second question might have stopped the need for asking the first?.just got to grip a little less tightly and sit well clear of any sharp edges.

maybe the asking the second question might have stopped the need for asking the first?.just got to grip a little less tightly and sit well clear of any sharp edges.

Sound reasoning, but alas, it was congenital (possibly the most appropriate context for that particular term).

Maybe this needs a new thread after all...

read sheldon, there's pages of stuff on hand positions.

I took the effort of sharing my hand positions.

my handlbars and camera were on my desk, what can i say... possibly useful to the OP?

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/deakins/handlebars.html

I loves ridin hoods. most satisfying position and probably most versatile, no doubt about it.

Sound reasoning, but alas, it was congenital (possibly the most appropriate context for that particular term).

Maybe this needs a new thread after all...

maybe you should get a room?
and make a video?: 'reach-arounds, an intimate visual guide?' ? ;

get a pair of risers

I've got a pair of risers, just added hoods this afternoon.

i'm with deadlyfannypack on number 1 and 2. position # 1 was just how i held the bars when i started riding. comfortable, easy steering, and kinda feels like i have more control. # 2 when i'm just going with the flow... when i'm climbing (especially standing up and climbing) - # 1. whatev

thankyou,

clearly more than one member 'getting it' without feeling the need for negativity, cynisism, insults and taking the piss.

"negativity, cynisism, insults and taking the piss."

i thought that's why internet forums were created?