Originally Posted by
Darth Lefty
Any bar is someone’s favorite.
My favorite is Gerry Burgess randonneur bars as found on Schwinns of the early 70’s. But even among the group of randonneur bars, it’s a weird outlier, with not as much bend in the hoops and a lot of grip area at the bottom of the drops. A lot more like gravel bike handlebars of today.
I wonder if that is what I found and my local co-op I worked at. Part of my incentive of working there was to earn enough points to score that gorgeous handlebar. I love the curvature of it, the slight rise, the long grips at the bottom of the drops.
Based on your post I tried to google it, and found this Schwinn Le Tour
. The reach and drop are shorter than it looks in this picture - those long bar ends are a little misleading in the photo.
Looks like compass is the closest to this, although some gravel handlebars (notably the Salsa flared bars) seem to have a similar design theme.
https://janheine.wordpress.com/2015/...ur-handlebars/
