anyone else tried Ritchey Beacon Bars?

[Piaw Na]

I built up my son's Roadini with Ritchey Beacon Comp bars (https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/Hdny6ViFROaPcQIM_FkEbg.aW9haXdpnlfOy4Dg9_oNzx), and I've had a few people test ride it. What impressed me about the bar was that despite purposefully not mentioning anything about the handlebars, everyone who's used the bike defaults to using the drops automatically. It's a great position, hybrid between regular drops and straight bars, and just to show how nice a bike the Roadini is, my wife used it on her commute a few days and now wants her own Roadini!

Like all Grant Petersen bikes, it's the kind of bike where the more you ride it the more you like it. I've noticed that about his designs since the Bridgestone RB-1. I still feel that the bike could use a lower BB (especially when shod with 38mm tires), but riding with 28mm tires makes the bike feel so agile.

[DavidP]

Great that the Roadini is working out so well for your son (and wife)!

I have the wider XL version (52cm at the hoods, 67cm at the ends) on my drop bar Jones 29er, which is setup with the drops as the primary position (my bars are set just a bit lower than your son's). Despite the amount of flare I find they are comfortable on the hoods also.

My more roadish gravel bike has a 46cm Salsa Cowchipper.

-Dave

[Brian Turner]

I replaced 48cm Cowchippers on my Crust Bombora with 52cm Ritchey Beacons… I love them! The wide, shallow drop position is very comfortable and gives me a lot of control on rough terrain.

On Mar 22, 2024, at 3:39 PM, DavidP <dphi...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Steven Venizelos]

does anyone know if the Rickey Beacon Bars work with bar end shifters?

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[Anthony Holden]

Dave!! They look amazing on that Jones. I have an SWB that I've wanted to put drop bars on... these might be a candidate. Where do you mount your shifter?

[Piaw Na(藍俊彪)]

If you look at the picture of the Roadini I posted, I have microshift bar-end shifters installed.

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[Donzaemon]

Beacons were on the shortlist of bars I was considering for my Ritchey Ascent due to their flare and shallow drops, but I ended up with Ritchey Corralitos bars instead. I absolutely love the Corralitos bars and can't imagine swapping them out for anything else aside from maybe the new Redshift bar. My hesitation with the Beacon bars were the 36° flare, which results in an extreme angle for your brake levers. I was worried that the position on the hoods would be too angled and affect comfort. Glad to see you guys enjoy them though. 

I recently switched from Billie bars to SimWorks Wild Honey bars on my Homer and I have to say I'm not a fan. I've come to the realization that I prefer drop bars with short reach, shallow drops, and moderate flare. I'm thinking of trying out Ritchey Classic Venturemax, but my hesitation is that they have that weird "bio bend" at the drops. I may give Beacons in the 42cm size a shot and hope the flare doesn't bother me.