SIT UPRIGHT DUTCH STYLE BIKE HANDLEBARS WIDE COMFORT LIFESTYLE 70mm RISE 600mm

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The curved handlebars offer a comfortable grip and allow you to ride in a more upright and relaxed position, the saddle is wide and has thick padding. For example, one of my family rents a good 7-speed Dutch bike for €18 a month from a Dutch start up company.

I don't want to do this, not because I can't afford it, but because I park my bike in the street all the time, and bike theft is a thing here, not a rampant problem, but it happens. I'm just afraid that on a bike as upright and compact as the Venture, the grip ends would end up positioned somewhere over my knees! Traditional Dutch bicycles were mainly single-speed bikes with steel frames – there are few hills in Dutch cities, so there was little need for adaptations for climbing and descending. Also, if you're carrying stuff in a rucksack, you might be more comfortable with that load in panniers on the racks your bike already has. While the swept back angle is more natural for the wrists, I feel it is the upright position that takes all the pressure off your hands and wrists.Some of these are junk (and single speed), but some are pretty good (and 7 speed, with probably a few 21 speed units). It's good for a low position, but makes it difficult to achieve a comfortable position for utility usage. After a few days of such tours, my wrist usually starts hurting and my neck from "looking up" while biking. When riding my touring bike I very often find myself sitting as upright as I can while still holding the handlebar with the tips of my fingers, and I think, "only if this handlebar would curve towards me. Popular in the Netherlands, where the bicycle is the main way of getting around the city, these bicycles are perfectly suited for everyday use.

Suitable for bikes: Urban Mover (26V) UM24 UM26S UM33X UM36 UM44 UM44L UM55 Emoto (26V) Velocity 26V Traveller 26V folding bike Ridge 26V Liberty 26V F4W (26V). However, we offer one stem which can be used to change your position on a bike fitted with a threadless stem.If you install those handlebars upside down (flipped left to right, NOT simply rotated on the stem so you'll have to remove it from the stem and swap the brake hoods left and right), it will look like a drop bar and put you in a more aero position while preserving the sweep (which is good for your hands). That said, I wasn't aware that there's such amount of different handlebar diameters (with models differing to fractions of a mm).