Thanks seely I think its a pretty bike too. The handle bars where an experiment to see if I liked them or not. Most of the peddaling I do is city stuff, I spend most of my time in the hoods and I wanted access to the brakes without going into the drop position. I had an old steel handlebar which, of course I turned upside down and cut. What I found is I liked to grab the ends of the horns since you don't have as many positions as with the drop bars. Instead of using the handlebar tape buttons I found some rubber chair caps at the hardware store. (think of those caps on crutches and the feet of steel tubing chairs) Which I stuck over the cut end of the bar. They work quite well. Also on this forum someone mentioned sliding a piece of innertube on the bars before you apply the tape as an extra cushion. That works very well also.