2/13/2023 0 Comments Soma condor 2 handlebar![]() ![]() The shallow drop allowed me to spend much more time in the drops without discomfort than on “normal” bars. I won’t say my issues were magically solved – regular stretching and riding are also vital – but I will say that I did a 10 hour ride last weekend with absolutely no back pain whatsoever and a number of other all-day rides over the past few months that resulted in similar outcomes. I previously attempted to fix these ailments by swapping stems, but soon resigned myself to accepting that they were just a part of doing long rides.Įnter the Condor bars. I should have been a little more open-minded going in, because I did suffer from lower back pain while using traditional drop bars on rides longer than about five hours as well as occasional hand numbness. ![]() I didn’t expect to love or even like these bars, but they surprised me. I love them and plan to keep them on this bike indefinitely. I have ridden them on countless all day rides, centuries, and my double century last fall. Two years later, the bars are still on my gravel bike. I expected to ride them for the review period, not really like them, then take them off after writing the review. I got the Soma Condor bars to review for Dirt Rag Magazine in spring 2017. ![]()
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