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reever rbent member Posts: 459	my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Apr 24^th, 2014, 12:16pm !!!! I keep hitting my shins on the handlebars of my musashi!!! It will happen out of the blue.....a bump and WHAM there goes one of my shins up and into the bar! Any ideas on how to keep me from bleeding to death on these rough roads out here in Abilene?
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goatstick Team SCDRR Posts: 349	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #1 - Apr 24^th, 2014, 12:25pm The best solution (imo) to prevent shin divots is a tiller...
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #2 - Apr 24^th, 2014, 4:01pm Bar tape. Or you could shim the bar up a couple mm.
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Reply #3 - Apr 24^th, 2014, 4:42pm

Yep, add some shims to the riser to raise the handlebar. I had the same problem when I started riding the rough roads around here, after my move to Gun Barrel City. The handlebar height that had worked for so many years on the Corsa wasn't high enough for these roads. So, when I set up the new F5, I made a point of leaving the handlebar higher. Bar tape does help too, better to bump that than a metal handlebar.

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reever rbent member Posts: 459	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #4 - Apr 24^th, 2014, 5:32pm What are shims?
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aikigreg Moderator recumbent ninja Posts: 3685	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #5 - Apr 24^th, 2014, 5:47pm Little round pieces of metal - like a big washer, that you could put underneath your riser to lift it up.
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Reply #6 - Apr 24^th, 2014, 6:04pm

The steerer tube on my Musashi is surrounded by a 107 mm long sheath with a 5mm spacer between its top and the bottom of the stem clamp. The handle bar could not be raised with spacers, unless the steerer tube could be lengthened. Once the steerer tube is cut to length, the handlebar can only be adjusted down (by cutting the steerer tube and the sheath). One way the handlebars could be raised would be to remove the Musashi's stem and steerer tube sheath and install a 1-1/8" RANS long riser (cut down to achieve desired shin-to-handlebar clearance) and a headset adjuster clamp. I have seen one Musashi with this particular modification. The Musashi handlebar diameter at the stem clamp is 26 mm. Probably not going to fit the 25 mm clamp on a RANS forged curved riser, so a RANS handlebar would probably have to be used (Try the Musashi handlebar before ordering a RANS handlebar). Mike Librik at Easy Street Recumbents in Austin would be the expert on adjusting the height of Musashi handlebars, as he has built up a number of Musashis from frame kits. You might give him a call.

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Patti Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 876	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #7 - Apr 24^th, 2014, 6:52pm I had a similar problem with my Lightning. Kept wrecking my knees on the handlebars but couldn't raise them because it put them into my line of sight. Mike (Easy Street) got the problem fixed for me. Give him a call as he can often talk you through a problem over the phone.
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reever rbent member Posts: 459	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #8 - Apr 24^th, 2014, 8:07pm I forgot......some folks insist on pictures.
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FlyingLaZBoy Moderator '16 ICE SprintX fs, '16 Rocket, '12 KHS Mocha Posts: 5803	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #9 - Apr 25^th, 2014, 10:18am Quote from aikigreg on Apr 24^th, 2014, 5:47pm: Little round pieces of metal.... No, that's what robot bunnies leave behind....
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jayg Five Star Member rbent member Posts: 4208	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #10 - Apr 27^th, 2014, 9:32am Ran across a steerer tube extender that would allow you to raise your handlebar a couple of inches: http://www.wiggle.com/bbb-bhp-22-steerer-tube-extender/. A spacer stack would be used between the extender clamp and the stem clamp.
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reever rbent member Posts: 459	Re: my shins are a bloody, battered pulp!!! Reply #11 - Apr 27^th, 2014, 8:24pm Thanks a million jayg! I will look into that one.
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Reply #12 - Apr 30^th, 2014, 9:07pm

The first thing I didn't like about the Musashi was the handle bars hitting my knees and poking me in the gut. So the next time I was at Easy Streets Mike had a Musashi with Volae handle bars and wow they make a difference in leg room.

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