rondot@spiritone.com
You really do not need bar ends on your mountain bike if you have the
special Hummer 780 or 790 mm wide bars (that is how you spell "wide load").
If you have those, that alone creates enough of a barrier that only the most
slithery types on cross bikers can get past you and then without the
bar-ends most potential hooking is minimized. :-)
Personally I do not think there is that much more chance for entanglement
with mountain bike bars than drop bars (does anyone have the stats on
this?). I have been doing this for a few years and ALL my hardware
interactions have been between drop bar bikes. That might be because there
are more of them on the course than mountain bikes or other bikes with flat
bars. I do think I give riders with bar ends more space as a general rule,
but just do not know if I really need to. The riders seem to "wobble not"
(pun intended) any more than drop bar racers.
Just my observations.
ronnie
ps.........Promoters.....leave no Saturday or Sunday during cross season
open without a race scheduled.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Fischler
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:49 AM
To: OBRA list list
Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Mountain Bikes for CX
They are also incredibly aesthetically offensive, which is the primary
concern.
AnimationMentor.com
[ ben.fischler@gmail.com ]
On Aug 25, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
> I believe the idea is to prevent "cow horning" the drop loop of another
> riders road bars. You will notice due to the similar heights and
> significant vertical profile in a road bar and lever combination
> entanglements are rare. Being the odd configuration in a CX race a MTB
> rightly bears the burden of not creating an undue hazard by having a
> forward facing hook.
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