Ragley Luxy Bars

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I put new bars on my old Ti bike

They look quite ugly but they change the feel of the bike in a good way to be much more stable and positive steering

Definitely a minor change to try, particularly if you are tall

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Update: I took the bars off recently

Although I spent a few weeks trying to get the stem rise right with an adjustable stem after I'd fitted the new stem the bars didn't seem as comfortable, especially on long ( > 2 hours ) rides. Now it's winter that's the sort of thing I will be doing on this bike so I switched back to the old bars.

One thing I noticed when switching back to the old bars: the brake levers are less easy to use on the "normal" bars. The levers on the luxy bars look odd (see the photos) but they actually are easier to get your hands round.

I am going to keep the bars, I am hoping to build up a new bike soon and I do still like them

passout

Interesting. Cheers.

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Now moved the bars to a Karate Monkey 29er


The gears on this are an 8 speed Alfine and the shifter is a bar end Jtek shifter

I'm not sure how obvious it is from the picture but I've used an adjustable stem. This is set to a lot of rise, which effectively "shortens" the stem as well as putting the bars higher. As the Karate Monkey is a MTB frame designed for flat bars I was concerned about the saddle to bars distance being too long. But with this "short" stem configuration it seems fairly good.

Obviously I will have to ride it around a lot to see if it really really works

2oldnslow

Had them for a while on my Singular but whilst I found the position comfortable I thought they did a poor job of absorbing "road buzz". In the end swapped them for a pair of On-One Midge bars, similar shape but for me a lot more "comfortable".

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2oldnslow wrote:

Had them for a while on my Singular but whilst I found the position comfortable I thought they did a poor job of absorbing "road buzz". In the end swapped them for a pair of On-One Midge bars, similar shape but for me a lot more "comfortable".

That's interesting, as the Ragley Luxy bars have an OS middle section they should be a bit more rigid. I didn't notice them being particularly buzzy before - but the Ti bike was very good at soaking up buzz.

For Mr average the On-One Midge bars are a better choice if you want to try "off road" style drops as the Luxy bars are not being manufactured at the moment and don't seem to be available.

2oldnslow

Suppose the transmission (or otherwise) of "road buzz" is pretty subjective and like most things related to bike and bike components dependant on what you use them with/on. I've still got them so they might yet make a re-appearance.