what bars are on yours?

[jayonabike]

NOS 3T 80's road bars on my Langster steel, they go really well with the retro styled frame.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

On both of mine they've got chop 'n' flipped drops. (bullhorns)

Penny pinching, no more, no less.

 

[brockers]

On both of mine they've got chop 'n' flipped drops. (bullhorns)

Chopped 'n' flopped or clipped 'n' flipped.

Now write it out one hundred times!!

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Chopped 'n' flopped or clipped 'n' flipped.

Now write it out one hundred times!!

A hundred times.





I 've got better things to do like ride my bike.

 

[PpPete]

Charge Slice (Bullhorns) on my fixed.

Randonneur drop bars (old style touring design) on everything else.

 

[Manonabike]

I'm using Charge Bowl drop bars...because I love the look and feel of them.

Mmmmm I quite like to the look of those..... if you don't mind me asking, how wide and how deep are they?

 

[Hover Fly]

Cinelli 65 the old Criterium gently curved shallow trackish shape. I wish Nitto or someone would start making copies, they are getting old and anyone with old stock charges silly prices.

 

[brockers]

I'm assuming that a lot of us are using old steel frames with non a-headsets, so short of starting a new thread, what's the lightest quill/a-headset adapter out there?

Seeing as I'm now looking at a choice of using four types of bars (home-made bullhorns, Cinelli 65s, User's old Midge bars, and the ITM 225s from my sometime race bike which I'm replacing with compacts), I want to use a-head stems for fast hassle-free swapping.

 

[wheres_my_beard]

Mmmmm I quite like to the look of those..... if you don't mind me asking, how wide and how deep are they?

Apparently they are 450mm wide. I'm not sure how to measure depth accurately, but with a rough measurement it looks like the centre of the lowest part of the drop is about 12-15cm lower than the highest part of the bar. This bar has quite narrow curved shoulders compared to road bars. I have a bmx style brake lever but have read that road levers can be fitted comfortably.

 

[Manonabike]

Apparently they are 450mm wide. I'm not sure how to measure depth accurately, but with a rough measurement it looks like the centre of the lowest part of the drop is about 12-15cm lower than the highest part of the bar. This bar has quite narrow curved shoulders compared to road bars. I have a bmx style brake lever but have read that road levers can be fitted comfortably.

Thanks ever so much for that.

 

[3narf]

Those look smart, but they must be limited in terms of hand positions on the road...

I mean, you can't ride on the bends or the tops, can you?

 

[wheres_my_beard]

Those look smart, but they must be limited in terms of hand positions on the road...

I mean, you can't ride on the bends or the tops, can you?

I do. It takes a little micro adjusting to get the angle right for comfy use of the drops and tops, but it's doable. I mostly (90%) rid on the tops or the top part of the drop (where road brakes would be), and use the drops for nasty climbs or for a bit of speed on open road.

I may be using the wrong words to describe how I use the bars.

Interestingly (to me anyways), if you google for images of Charge Bowl, my bike comes up in the search results about 1/4 of the way down the first page!

 

[gaz]

Interestingly (to me anyways), if you google for images of Charge Bowl, my bike comes up in the search results about 1/4 of the way down the first page!

What this?

 

[Ibbots]

What this?

...a waste of about £400?

 

[wheres_my_beard]

What this?

No. No. and No.