Re: Road bike for a fat guy

On Sep 28, 6:30 pm, "BobT" <RobertLeeTaylor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Hud" <hud_o...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:46fd6abe$0$32468$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I've been biking for a month and I'm hooked. I've been riding a Trek
Multitrack 7200, a hybrid for urban transportation. I really want to
upgrade to a road bike but worry my 245 lbs. will damage such a bike. I'm
willing to spend up to $1500. Maybe some of you have been in my shoes
before. Any bike suggestions?

First I would ask, what are you looking for in a road bike that you don't
have on your hybrid?

a) Drop handlebar for better aerodyanmics? Unless your 245 comes mostly
from height not girth, you may not be very comfortable with the now
typically very low bar position of a road racing bike.

I've read people arguing this before, and I don't get it. I don't ride
drop bars for aerodynamics, I ride them for the multitude of hand
positions. If you're having a bike built from a frame (like a Surly
Pacer, Crosscheck or LHT) leave the steerer uncut and the bars high.
Flat bars are no higher than the tops of a drop bar, and you're locked
into one hand position (and one that's awful for out-of-saddle
climbing, IMO).

I would guess that most who advocate flat-bar road bikes haven't
ridden a drop bar that was well-configured for them.

.

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