You're doing it wrong
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
chain's slack
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
If the owners happy 😊
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
Blimey, and
I thought my set up looks odd.
chriswoody
Legendary Member
- Location
- Northern Germany
It's a bike that doesn't know if it's coming or going.
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
Should be able to knock a lot off the asking price for the expense of putting that right.
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
A £600 bike and this is the lock that goes with it!
Brakes like that are not entirely wrong, although in this example, it's not been thought through properly. I don't see how you could hold the bars on the drops without interference from the rest of the bar.
But back in the dark ages, I did something similar and have just pulled them out of the shed to take a photo.
The bars are replicas of the ones Moser used to break the hour record with 51.151 km's. You can see through the heavily scratched bars, the logo 51.151.
The brake had to be in that position and reversed to give sufficient pull.
You'll notice only one brake, as I was riding a Mercian fixed at the time.
But back in the dark ages, I did something similar and have just pulled them out of the shed to take a photo.
The bars are replicas of the ones Moser used to break the hour record with 51.151 km's. You can see through the heavily scratched bars, the logo 51.151.
The brake had to be in that position and reversed to give sufficient pull.
You'll notice only one brake, as I was riding a Mercian fixed at the time.
classic33
Leg End Member
Is that a Wood's valve on the rear?
Well, can't be that happy since they're at least trying to flog it
Well, it does... but I can see how that would work if it's your bag. Unlike the example above!
Perhaps.. although who knows what's gone on with the cabling. The bars haven't just been flipped in the stem but apparently rotated in the horizontal plane.. so worst case you might have to re-cable and re-wrap it. Given the state of the bars who knows to what quality this "work" has been carried out / what horrors one might encounter when seeking to put it right.
Cool - as per @Tail End Charlie's post I can see how these would work; unlike those in the OP!
Dunno; I'm more concerned by the mess at the front
That has to be a wind up.
This how I had them, on 8/5/94, on the E82/50 - did a 2:16:03
This copy was the "entertainment" of my daughter. Dont worry, I have a better copy somewhere on the computer.
You can just make out the RH brake lever.
Can't believe this was 29 years ago - where does time go?
