Swapping handlebars---tougher than it looks?

[KathiCville]

Hi Zen....Good point. I remember asking my friend if we could do that (as we were looking at the Nashbar website), and I think the main reason he 'voted' against it was because the price of any of the bar ends that he liked was more than the price of the Time Trial handlebar. (Which was on sale at the time for @$23.) And since he was thinking he'd install it for me, I suspect he was probably trying to save me money.

Later edit: Ooops! I just realized that the reason we weren't going to get just the bar ends wasn't price, but the darned Ergo grips that are currently on the handlebar. He put them on for me last fall as part of our effort to deal with an ongoing shoulder problem. The Ergo grips (original model) are not built to allow you to add bar ends to them. (I think there's a newer model that has bar ends built in.)

Soooooo, if I just take off the Ergo grip---they're part of the hand-numbness problem anyway, ironically---I'll probably be good to go with just a decent set of bar ends.......And I'll return the Time Trial handlebar to Nashbar.

Thanks DebW and Zen! Problem solved much more easily than I realized once you both began asking questions...........