Hi, I need help, posted here for maximum potential input. It goes like this.
2015 Slice. I used to be able to hold / push the bike by the saddle and it would stand / roll along easily. Now that the bars have been changed the front end is terribly floppy, and the edge of the TriRig brake *slams* into my headtube and has unfortunately already chipped my new paint job. This can't continue.
* Can anyone provide input here on how to make the new bar setup less floppy?
Next issue. I got the TriRig extensions, and I have the 2-button bar end shifters (Di2). Due to the bends in the bars and the length of the shifters, I can't get the buttons as close to my hands as I want unless I only put my elbow tips on the pads and my forearms are angled up and my wrists down to the shifters. I don't like this, and wrist angle is one of the things that needed fixing with the bike's stock extension setup. (I don't like my forearm off the pad or the angle of my wrist to the shifters.)
I see 3 solutions and would like input on these:
1) cut the bars below the 2nd bend, making the shifters stick up to the sky (instead of forward and up).
2) swap out to the 1-button shifters which seem shorter in overall length. (I can't return the 2-button ones as too much time has passed, would have to try to sell them).
3) try to find alternate extensions with a diffterent angle at the first bend so I can achieve the desired overall length and angle. But I have no idea what alternate extensions to buy and the highly shortened TriRig extensions would be a total loss.
(I'll try to get the picture of my bars to load, though frankly don't understand how to do so from a mobile device).
ETA, please ignore the zip tie install of the Garmin mount as it is a temporary solution, as is the deck mounted junction box & snarl of wires.
To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive.
2015 Slice. I used to be able to hold / push the bike by the saddle and it would stand / roll along easily. Now that the bars have been changed the front end is terribly floppy, and the edge of the TriRig brake *slams* into my headtube and has unfortunately already chipped my new paint job. This can't continue.
* Can anyone provide input here on how to make the new bar setup less floppy?
Next issue. I got the TriRig extensions, and I have the 2-button bar end shifters (Di2). Due to the bends in the bars and the length of the shifters, I can't get the buttons as close to my hands as I want unless I only put my elbow tips on the pads and my forearms are angled up and my wrists down to the shifters. I don't like this, and wrist angle is one of the things that needed fixing with the bike's stock extension setup. (I don't like my forearm off the pad or the angle of my wrist to the shifters.)
I see 3 solutions and would like input on these:
1) cut the bars below the 2nd bend, making the shifters stick up to the sky (instead of forward and up).
2) swap out to the 1-button shifters which seem shorter in overall length. (I can't return the 2-button ones as too much time has passed, would have to try to sell them).
3) try to find alternate extensions with a diffterent angle at the first bend so I can achieve the desired overall length and angle. But I have no idea what alternate extensions to buy and the highly shortened TriRig extensions would be a total loss.
(I'll try to get the picture of my bars to load, though frankly don't understand how to do so from a mobile device).
ETA, please ignore the zip tie install of the Garmin mount as it is a temporary solution, as is the deck mounted junction box & snarl of wires.
To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive.