Road bike with flat sport bars??

[flying start]

Hi all this might sound like a stupid question
Can you turn a road raceing bike into a flat bar sports - hybrid bike I know it's just a case of swapping bars and shifters as such but will it affect the the bike frame ? I've only seen this done the over way flat bars to drop bars!
As Ive seen a cube road bike (frame - forks) but wondered about turning it into a a fast sports bike?

 

[simon.r]

Yes, you can.

Bars, shifters, brake levers and grips should sort it.

 

[biggs682]

easyish to do , once all the above sorted even easier on an older racer with downtube shifters

 

[oldroadman]

WHY?????

 

[TheDoctor]

Not sure I'd buy a road bike and convert it, but if you must...
I built a flat-bar road bike. You need cantilever-compatible brake levers (not V-brake!!) and I used gripshifters. You can use a double road mech, as you only need index one position - the limit screw takes care of the inner stop. Get a shorter, more upright stem than for a road bike and you're pretty much there. A compact chainset, and a MTB cassette and rear mech will give you a good spread of gears - I used 50/34T chainset with a 12-32 cassette.
A single chainring with 7/8/9/10 speed rear is also doable, and pretty cheap.

 

[uphillstruggler]

i did it in reverse with a Giant Rapid.

bought the shifters and bars and everything worked fine, depends on the original componants and their compatability with the cross over.

could be a thread starter if you decide to try.

 

[BigTam]

I bought a Boardman Hydrid Pro, basically a road bike with flat bars

 

[flying start]

It was just a Thort as I'm having no look selling my bianchi road bike and lbs have offerd me a poor price considering I only borght it last year from them! I just don't get on with the drop down bars just don't feel comfortable on it and only use it to and from work.
But looking to buy a giant rapid or a Boardman hybrid!

 

[musa]

What bianchi you got?

 

[screenman]

Is it possible that you do not get on with the drops because you have them set up wrong, this is often the case. A fraction of adjustment here and there can make a huge difference, and for my compact drops made a massive difference in comfort and that was after 40 years of feeling the other styles were good.

 

[jay clock]

The resale prices of road bikes with drop bars are sky high. Even the cheapest Bianchi drop bar road bike in good and new-ish condition shoould go for a good price. Most LBS do not deal in secondhand any more, so they do not want it.

Do a bit of research on Ebay then post it up on this forum

 

[flying start]

Bianchi C2C vanirone7 with alucarbon k-vid fork size 57 and campagnolo xenon 10 speed and double up front! I've posted on this forum befor but no interest!

 

[Norm]

Or you could just buy a Charge Plug, Mixer or Tap and let someone else do the hard work.