Finally figured out a setup that works for me, is respectable in weight, adjustable, and low. I thought I would share. This is a mix of Profile Jammer and HED hardware. The clamps are from the jammers, the extensions are obviously HED’s.
The profile jammers mount the extensions above the bar and it is nearly impossible to pull up on them while riding. Also, this puts the rider about 1.5" above the H-bar. The HED Cliplite and Fliplites mount the elbow pad too far forward to work with most road bikes.
So I used the profile hardware and mounted the S-bends them below the bar, lowering my position by another inch or so and swapped out the jammer extentions with HED’s deep S-curve extensions. I needed to get two more 12mm spacers from profile and I was able to find longer screws at a hardware store.
Kudos to profile for having a very adjustable, versatile hardware kit and for the fast response to get me the spacers I needed (for free too). This will adapt to a 31.8 bar as well, but one would probably have to get two extra sets of spacers and grind one set down a few mm.
Cool… but why on a cyclocross bike?!
It’s my only road bike right now. It adapts very well to an aero position and is a very fast road bike. The only issue is that it is much higher off the ground than a normal road bike… but I have yet to find a negative consequence of that. I would have thought drafting would be more difficult, but I haven’t felt much a difference (but I’m used to not drafting well - being 6’2")
The more interesting question… why Record Carbon on a cross bike?
The more interesting question… why Record Carbon on a cross bike?
Well… it is a (Morati ? ) Ti bike …
Thanks for sharing this. It looks pretty good. I’ve been thinking about sliding some HED s-bends into my profile jammers. I do have a 31.8mm bar though.
If I’m following you correctly, you think that it would take two additional spacers to fit the larger bar? Is this purely to get the pad as low as possible? I wonder if profile makes a small spacer…I’ll have to ask them…
Record Carbon mostly because it is what I had sitting in a box - which is a terrible, terrible waste. I would have prefered non-carbon Chorus. but this bike will not be used for cross in the near future. I am finding this bike to be the most versitle frame I’ve ever owned. It works well for all things. Tri, road, and cross (I have rode it cross in the past and it is easy enough to throw on some knobbies).
you would need the additional spacers to raise the elbow pads above the h-bar (the pads are connected to the s-curves below the bar and have to be raised until they are higher than the h-bar). Otherwise the h-bar would dig into your forearms and the elbow pad would not clear the h-bar either.
The spacers are small and plastic. It would be easy enough to cut them witha hack saw or grind them down.
It’s a titanium Morati CR 1.1 made in the chzec republic by Honeywell. Disc tabs on front and rear.