{"id":556,"date":"2009-06-06T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/06\/review-nitto-promenade-bar\/"},"modified":"2009-06-06T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T20:40:00","slug":"review-nitto-promenade-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/06\/review-nitto-promenade-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Nitto Promenade Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I have no complaints about my 06 Bianchi Castro Valley Commuter, I am just not psyched to ride it… I have been lucky and for now can bring my bike in the office so I have been riding my cross bike, mountain bike or single speed in lately.<\/p>\n

Which prompted me to try and sell the Castro Valley. But I’m lazy and don’t want to ship it. And I don’t want to give it away…<\/p>\n

Then I got to thinking about the other 8 months of the year when it rains or snows here so I guess a commuter makes sense…<\/p>\n

So I decided to change it slightly, put on a set of Nitto Promenade bars, which I got from speedgoat.com.
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I wanted to use my ultegra bar con, so I put it on a Paul’s Thumbie.
\"\"<\/a>I like the way it works, but you kind of need to use it anyhow, since I don’t think there is room for a modern under the bar style XT mountain shifter.<\/p>\n

While I was at it, I put on XTR V-Brakes, if you have to use mountain levers you might as well use V-Brakes, they are 1000x better than the Paul Touring’s I had on. They were nice brakes, but V-Brakes are the best canti brake ever… seriously don’t argue me on this.
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I just put them on so I need a few more rides before I give the final verdict but they are nice. I should lower the stem and get rid of the cable hanger… I’ll do it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>View from the cockpit
\"\"<\/a>The final version.
\"\"<\/a>The only thing I’d note is that the flat parts that you put the levers on is really short. Those bolt on mtn grips over hang by about 20mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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