Originally Posted by
Drillium Dude
...If he owned this bike during that time frame, he probably rode it in the Tweaker Bike configuration:
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Man, that's harsh! Probably a lot of normal people back in the day who were used to riding bikes with upright handlebars did just that, despite the foolishness of the unintended "self-energizing brakes" feature.
But yeah, these days I see that modification mostly used by the chronically homeless population.
I have an easier time using "hobo bars" as a much less-insulting term, hobos being transient workers, not bums.
To each their own in conveying reality on the street as they see it, I admit that "transient workers" don't seem to be the majority of the users of bikes I see "tweaked" that way.
Don't get me started on the DWI crowd.