What are those top tube chrome things called?
05-01-08, 08:24 PM
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What are those top tube chrome things called?
What are those top tube (often chrome) handle-looking things I see on a lot of fixed gears (like in the attached photo)? And what's their point?
I tried searching elsewhere to figure this out, but don't even know what to search really. And I don't know any hipsters.
I tried searching elsewhere to figure this out, but don't even know what to search really. And I don't know any hipsters.
05-01-08, 08:28 PM
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They're top tube protectors. Sometimes they're just some handlebar tape, sometimes they're a big pad that covers the whole top tube. In your photo it's just to protect from the handlebars swinging and hitting the top tube (not an issue on a bike with brake cables). The bigger ones are to protect from bike racks and U-locks.
05-01-08, 10:12 PM
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Brilliant.
Thanks.
Thanks.
05-02-08, 07:35 AM
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The wheels are mismatched. Am I out of touch with current styles? (probably)
05-02-08, 02:48 PM
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05-03-08, 02:54 PM
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05-03-08, 05:52 PM
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perfectly logical reason for what would seem to the uninformed out-of-touch person to be questionable aesthetics
05-04-08, 01:42 AM
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pictured on that bike looks like a kashimax fivegold top tube protector, basically a rubbery clear material over a metal clasp that protects your top tube from dents if you crash or moronically knock your bike over and your bars whip around and hit it.
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also it looks like that frame has long-shen lr-15 track ends in the back which i always thought were cute
