The Tao of the Bosco Bar

Daniel Jackson

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Oct 14, 2015, 8:33:38 PM10/14/15

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Tell me, friends, of all the wondrous ways there are to set up a Bosco Bar. Photos of setups would be much help.

Thanks folks,

D.

Dave

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Oct 14, 2015, 10:38:19 PM10/14/15

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Cork grips, Paul thumbies(installed reverse), some bar tape. Will dig up a photo

Bill Lindsay

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Oct 15, 2015, 1:21:47 AM10/15/15

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Here's a photo of mine.

BOSCO

Ritchey True Grips, Vintage Suntour XC9000 brakelevers, red Newbaums, and pretty rare black Suntour Sprint retro-friction DT shifters mounted on thumbies. The odd-ball part is I put the shifters inside the bullmoose triangle, in part to keep them out of the way of any of my other hand positions on the Boscos. I have to reach to shift, not unlike the reach I have to make for DT shifters.

Takashi

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Oct 15, 2015, 5:33:57 AM10/15/15

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My Hunqapillar with Bosco:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/77318553@N08/16283372640/in/album-72157650693988781/

Dia Compe DC-135 brake levers allow you to wrap bar tapes over fixing band, so you can put your hands on any place of your handlebar.
http://www.amazon.com/Dia-Compe-Touring-Straight-Levers/dp/B0041X4TIQ

Takashi

2015年10月15日木曜日 9時33分38秒 UTC+9 Daniel Jackson:

Jeremy Till

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Oct 15, 2015, 5:40:05 PM10/15/15

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Here's a couple of mine, they are my current all-time favorite bar:

https://flic.kr/p/z3uwFM

https://flic.kr/p/pgoF44

58cm HT aluminum boscos, cheapo (think they're Origin8) adjustable cable pull levers (I like 'em slightly more forward than Grant), Shimano 9spd bar-end shifters, Oury grips with the flange end cut off. Derailleur cables run along grooves provided by the Oury grips, never feel like they're in the way. I've got 2 or 3 good hand positions that all have brake lever access and a couple more without.

If I were doing a more off-road specific build I might think about thumbies to remove the perhaps theoretical risk of pokey things at the ends of the bars, but for mostly road/touring/commuting/fire roads like my trucker sees I love the bar ends.

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Mark Wilkins

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Oct 15, 2015, 6:46:42 PM10/15/15

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I just rebuilt my wife's Atlantis with Bosco bars. Cromo, Tektro levers, Sunrace thumbies, multicolor Newbaum's.

The "grips" are brown cotton tape over a layer of cork tape.

She likes it over the Albatross, cork grips, vintage Dia-Compe levers, and shimano bar ends that used to be on the bike

https://flic.kr/p/ySV4Y3

https://flic.kr/p/ySV4Wu

Mark

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Surlyprof

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Oct 16, 2015, 12:01:42 AM10/16/15

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Here's what they look like on a mountain bike. Before I sold the Groove, I had injured my shoulder. Although I never really felt the warm fuzzies about them, they did keep me riding to work by taking the pressure off.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129545862@N03/21588225663/in/dateposted-public/

John

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Marc Irwin

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Oct 17, 2015, 6:52:04 AM10/17/15

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Here's what made sense to me on my Hillborne and Hunqapillar. I placed the Dia Compe stoker knobs as a place to lean for all day rides, but took them off the Hunq when I found I couldn't get replacement covers for the knobs. Apparently Dia Compe quit making them. I have Tectro MTB and interrupter levers with stem shifters on the Hillborne with Cardiff grips an VO leather bar wrap on the Sam.