Bosco bars have arrived...

[ANDREW LETTON]

Just got an email from RBWWHQ saying that Bosco has landed!
Get 'em while you can!
cheers,
Andrew

[Peter Morgano]

Just snagged a 55cm Cromo, oh the agony of being on the opposite coast and having to wait a week!

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[Brian Hanson]

Just ordered the 58cm alums.  Now which bike to land em on...

Brian
Seattle, WA

[Robert F. Harrison]

55cm Cromo here too - not even on a coast though - Hawaii - who knows how long I'll wait. :-)

Aloha!

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[Thomas Lynn Skean]

Indeed, it's a week to Chicago. Maybe longer, with all the Bosco madness.

I have placed my order, though, and expect to be riding with them next weekend at the latest!

I confess I am less enthused about the Bosco's looks than I am about, say, well, every other bar RBW has sold to my knowledge. But we're talking rise! backsweep! space! In use it should prove all an Albatross is and more.

My only questions now are:

1) what kind of shifters to use?

a) stem Silvers
b) SOS
c) Shimano on Thumbies

2) what grips?

a) Dia Compe dark wood
b) Miesha's cork
c) Newbaum's over corky-tape

3) What kind of covering?

a) none
b) Newbaum's
c) sew-on leather
d) tan corky-tape
e) wrap-on leather

4) forward-mounted interrupter levers?

a) Paul's
b) none

Actually, that's a lot of unknowns. The only knowns are the bar and the brake levers (Paul Love Lever 2.5s).

Yours,
Thomas Lynn Skean
58cm Aluminum Bosco
2x 60cm dtt studded Hillborne

[Marc Irwin]

I had mine added to my Hillborne pre-order a couple of weeks ago, I feel lucky they both in at the same time, I hope I'm riding it next week!

Marc

[Olivier Chetelat]

Friends of fine cycles,

I made a slight detour on my way to work this morning and picked up a bar from the Bosco kind at the Rivendell HQ. The aluminum model measuring 58cm.

It will grace a 64 cm Atlantis with a 62 cm top tube. I'm looking forward to the reduced distance between grips and saddle and the few inches of additional rise.

The bosco will replace a well loved Albatross this evening. I will document the process and post a link on this thread as well as first impressions.

May you all have a sunny day,

Olivier

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[René Sterental]

My Bosco Bullmoose bars are in the hands of the UPS nice people and will be delivered tomorrow morning so by nightfall they should be installed on my Hunqapillar. I'm looking forward to testing them and seeing if they help address all the myriad of aches and pains I still have when I ride. 2012 has been a bad year for my riding, but I'm just starting to pick it up again. Let's see of these bars and their more upright position help.

This evening I did my first ride in months so tomorrow I'll be able to compare how the Hunqapillar feels the the new bars vs the 150 Bullmoose bars. Here are a couple of photos from today's ride. 

 René 

[Marc Irwin]

Mine are in the hands of UPS scheduled for delivery on Wednesday with my new Hillborne frame.  It's just the day before I'm heading to Nashville for the Harpeth River Ride with a group.

Marc

On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:17:28 PM UTC-4, Andrew Letton wrote:

[William]

To all Bosco Patrons:

I saw some very attractive Bosco Rubbe T-Shirts at Riv HQ yesterday.  I bought a shirt even though I don't own the bars (or the bike).  It's an American Apparel SS shirt in a mossy green and it says Bosco Rubbe Junior College est 1994.  Call Riv up and ask them to sell you one.  

Bill

[Allingham II, Thomas J]

They're up on the site. 

Sent from my iPhone

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[René Sterental]

Bars have been delivered! Setting them up this afternoon after I leave work. 

René 

[Thomas Lynn Skean]

Alas! Alack!

 

It's a good thing I'm well-stocked with RBW T-shirts of various colors/printages/sleeve-lengths. The switch to the shirts they sell now means XXL will no longer work for me; thus I think my RBW T-shirt-buying days are consigned to history.

 

Otherwise, I might make sure my first ride with the Bosco bar (scheduled for next week) would be whilst wearing a Bosco Rubbe shirt.

 

I'm interested in seeing how long a stem I need to accommodate the hand-grip position. I think I'll do what I need to do to avoid having to truncate the bar. I won't be using bar-end shifters... either stem or SOS. I'll start with an 10cm or 11cm stem, one of which I have available. (I'm happy with an 11cm or 10cm with my Albatross bar.) While I understand the Bosco comes back further than the Albatross, it's also true that I'll sink the stem more due to the massive rise of the Bosco, so the position that the Bosco comes back *from* will be slightly farther forward. I haven't done the figurin' so I don't know how much mitigation that'll provide. I'd rather just see. I don't need it to be just like my Albatross; I just want not to feel penned in. Variety is nice!

 

Yours,

Thomas Lynn Skean

[William]

Photos to prove the shirts happened:

http://rivbike.tumblr.com/ 

Scroll downish.  Lots of you probably saw this when it was new.  I'd missed it.  

[Olivier Chetelat]

Bosco installed.

I went on an extremely windy nocturnal test. The bar is very comfortable. It brings the hands upwards by what seems a few inches and closer to the saddle by a few inches, times two or three. So far back that tight turns are becoming awkward  due to the extension of the bar end shifters poking in the knees/calfs. 

Snap, work gets in the way... more reporting soon.

Here is a visual:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/olipop/7268619180/

Cheers,

o

[Thomas Lynn Skean]

The Bosco has arrived (non-'moose)! Tomorrow I build it up and incorporate it into the cockpit rotation. Wood grips, stem shifters, love levers, nekkid bar (for now; probably shellacked Newbaum's later). Pictures will come forth.

Yours,
Thomas Lynn Skean