{"id":655,"date":"2008-02-17T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T19:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/new-handlebars-velo-orange-milan-bars\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T19:31:00","slug":"new-handlebars-velo-orange-milan-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/new-handlebars-velo-orange-milan-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"New Handlebars &#8211; Velo Orange Milan Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been commuting in this crap snow\/rain\/ice mix all winter and the braking situation is getting tiring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iMQ_YBB2I\/AAAAAAAAAkc\/7ilGlswpv4M\/s1600-h\/IMGP2991.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iMQ_YBB2I\/AAAAAAAAAkc\/7ilGlswpv4M\/s400\/IMGP2991.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168034795925604194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>To try and fix this I put a new set of handlebars of the Bianchi Casto Valley commuter. I wanted something a little more upright and with the ability to use mtn levers, cool old suntours mtn levers&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iL-vYBByI\/AAAAAAAAAj8\/-cBGHaZDcLE\/s1600-h\/IMGP2989.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iL-vYBByI\/AAAAAAAAAj8\/-cBGHaZDcLE\/s400\/IMGP2989.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168034482392991522\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I opted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velo-orange.com\/milanbar.html\">Milan Bar from Velo Orange<\/a> . It fits mountain  bike size levers and  shifters. It requires the use of a nitto shim, or a coke can shim.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iL_PYBBzI\/AAAAAAAAAkE\/CbY_5MfBSFQ\/s1600-h\/IMGP2988.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iL_PYBBzI\/AAAAAAAAAkE\/CbY_5MfBSFQ\/s400\/IMGP2988.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168034490982926130\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This is my usual winter commuter glove, a REI Primaloft mitt. My hands get cold&#8230; especially leaving my house at 6:30am to head in to work. I was having a problem braking with the road levers and this seems to work much better. Although to be honest it could have been the insane amount of road salt and grime stuck in my cables&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iL_fYBB0I\/AAAAAAAAAkM\/jXl_iHjarFg\/s1600-h\/IMGP2993.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iL_fYBB0I\/AAAAAAAAAkM\/jXl_iHjarFg\/s400\/IMGP2993.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168034495277893442\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>And the maiden voyage included a stop down to the recycling center to drop off the last two months worth of cardboard. It is secured with a generic rear rack cargo net, I got mine from Velo Orange as well. It worked just fine.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iL_vYBB1I\/AAAAAAAAAkU\/e2iTbX7y-kY\/s1600-h\/IMGP2985.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7iL_vYBB1I\/AAAAAAAAAkU\/e2iTbX7y-kY\/s400\/IMGP2985.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168034499572860754\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been commuting in this crap snow\/rain\/ice mix all winter and the braking situation is getting tiring. To try and fix this I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-velo-orange-milan-bars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}