Bullmoose brake lever question

[BSWP]

I'm going to try the Bullmoose bars on my QuickBeam, as a test change from the 'M bars. It's easy enough to remove the moustache bars, brake levers and stem as a clean cockpit, leaving my tape wrap in place, for a quick change back later on. But for Bullmoose bars, has anyone experimented with placing the brake levers well to the inside and just building up tape wrap for a wide hand placement area? I think I'll try that, it would put the brake levers similar to where I'm used to them, and leave lost of room for moving my hands around.

And oh, are these Moosies wide! I'm not going to trim 'em narrower just yet, but slipping through traffic will be more interesting, that's for sure.

- Andrew, Berkeley

[William]

I run my 'mooses with really long taped grips.  I don't remember the dimensions, but I could measure when I'm at home.  

[René Sterental]

IIRC, M bars use road brake levers whereas Bullmoose bars (regular + Bosco) require MTB brake levers due to their different diameter. Cables are also going to be different.

 

René

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[BSWP]

Yup. All covered on that front. I'm leaving the very nice non-aero levers and cables on the M-bars, to maintain a modular cockpit. All I will need to do to change over is pull out the stem and reconnect cables.

- Andrew, Berkeley

[René Sterental]

Great! I was actually thinking about trying reverse brake levers on Bosco Bullmoose bars, just to see. On the regular Bullmoose bars, I think the brake levers on the standard position work very well. Let me know how you work it out with your configuration and post photos. It may be worth trying it as well.

 

René

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[Joe Bernard]

I think this is an excellent plan. I find the Bullmoose to be about an inch too wide on either side with standard MTB grips mounted on the ends.

 

Joe Bernard

Vallejo, CA.

On Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:04:51 AM UTC-8, BSWP wrote:

[ted]

What I have done on my Bombadil, and like a lot, is to put the brakes
at about the middle of the straight section. I then use cork tape on
either side of each lever (4 sections for the whole bar). Hands go
most anyplace. Outside the levers, on the levers, inside the levers,
all good. Since the clamps for my levers are thicker outboard than
inboard, ometime I may try doing one layer of cork outside the levers,
then start a second layer at the end of the bar and run it all the way
to the strut just going around the lever clamp sort of like you do
with road levers.
I have paul thumbies mounted on the arc right next to the struts and
have not bothered to tape the arc part of the bar.
If I were doing a single speed I think I would run the tape right
across the strut junction and end both sides in the middle. Might even
tie a monkey fist over the twined ends in the middle like marking the
wheel of a boat.

[BSWP]

I'm part way through the cockpit changeover, with the 200mm Bullmoose bars and brake levers in place, but no cables yet. I rode around the neighborhood today, nudging the bars up & down, brakes in & out (fixed gear, so easy to slow down). A few observations: The bars are really wide, wider than I need, too wide even for carrying the bike through doorways in the house. I will remove an even inch from the sides. The brakes are pretty good mounted with about an inch gap between clamp and bar struts - just enough room to comfortably rest the sides of my thumbs along the outsides of the struts while still able to brake with my outer fingers. And I can move my hands all along the bars, yet still have good variety of placement to brake with trigger and middle fingers. A couple layers of bar tape will be perfect. And the bars are very comfortable at even just an inch and a half raised in the steerer tube, which puts them about same amount higher than the nose of the saddle. The bars make an easy path across my palms, I think they're going to be great.

Pictures when it's all wired up.

- Andrew, Berkeley

[BSWP]

I had these out for a 20 mile ride to the Bay and back through the foothills today. It's pretty nice having eight inches of straight taped bar (I cut off an inch), with the brakes set close into the center. I can grab out wide, anywhere along the tape, and have several good positions with hands resting on the brake clamps, and I also found a restful spot for my hands at the very center of the bars. Glad to see RBW is bringing these back.

- Andrew, Berkeley