No, you'll have to use track drops or a flipped'n'chopped drop bar to be hardcore. And ride a bike that has never had brakes

(I'm so un-hardcore that currently I only have a geared MTB. And the SS/fixie I'm building now will have *warning: potentially disturbing mateial* two brakes and fenders. BTW, I have the frame now: Hungarian-made Schwinn aluminium road frame, lovely straight cro-mo fork. Vertical drops, so please keep fingers crossed for chain length.)

In the light of that, what the hell is the "senior member" note doing under my nick? Not age (23) or length of forum membership (forty-odd days, >100 posts)? Nor rhat it bothers me