Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - flop & chop vs "real" bullhorns

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fatbot
10-18-07, 10:03 AM
So I've never ridden manufactured bullhorns, but for some reason the only ones I've seen that I think I would like are the ones that closely resemble flop & chops. What are your experiences with comparing/contrasting the two?


Landgolier
10-18-07, 11:20 AM
Flop and chops are generally shorter on the reach, and the curve can actually be a little more ergo. If you want to keep the cost down, you usually don't need a shorter stem with them. Mounting brakes on them is a pain, however, unless you just want a little emergengy lever by the stem, which I think is kind of dumb unless that's where you mostly keep your hands. Factory stuff gives you two real hand positions with the flat part of the horn and then out to the end, on homegrowns it's more like 1.5 positions, there's not a huge difference.

kemmer
10-18-07, 11:58 AM
I'm not really liking my flop and chops. They are a bit uncomfortable with the bend so close to the ends. I was able to get a TT style lever crammed into the end of mine though.


skinnyland
10-18-07, 12:55 PM
I rike my frippenchopps.

dutret
10-18-07, 12:56 PM
a regular old road lever fits on them fine if you can't get a tt lever too.

Hirohsima
10-18-07, 01:10 PM
Apart from some TT levers not fitting (as Kemmer mentioned may be the case), TT bullhorns often sport internal cable routing and the hand position for the "horns" are longer and straight so you can move around on them a bit.

Bullhorns also offer different degrees of drop. Flopped bars only have zero drop which is fine if that is what you need. Bullhorns also offer different degrees of length extension, flops don't.

It depends on your current fit and if you need to tweak your hand position.