Originally Posted by nayr497
Do you wear $400 mountain jackets when frequenting coffee chains? Are you the skier with the most amazing equipment, who stays home when it dips below 30 degrees?
Congratulations, you've joined the Extreme Consumer Club!! You buy things made for extreme conditions yet use them for the most plainly normal activities. Your bicycle will stand up there on the NYC streets right next to all those Hummers, as being completely out-of-place.
Why acquire a KEIRIN TRACK frame to put risers on it? You are defying every pedigree with which the machine was constructed. While your bicycle looks the part, it seems as if you can't endure your end, which is putting up with the positioning on a track bicycle. And, if you really were concerned with safety there is no question you'd have a brake on in a city like NYC. I don't care even if it is flat; velodromes don't have cabs, construction trucks and pedestrians.
Way to go! Enjoy your new, comfortable handlebars.
ha! im gonna say it.. this is the stupidest argument ive ever heard.. go tell sheldon brown that.. he'd love it.. um.. some of us ride track frames cause we love the feel of tight geometry with big wheels..
some of us also just ride what makes us happiest... last i checked i wasnt doing circles around a velodrome for cash prizes..
i posted my rig before.. but here it is again...nayr497.. i hope this doesnt make you have a heart attack.. a 20 year old track frame that had never been ridden.. only to get built with risers! oh the humanity!
p.s....those risers were 9.95 and the grips were 5.95 at bike nashbar.. i cut about an inch off them.. might do a tiny bit more