Originally Posted by
Timmy Mac
Okay, so this is my bike:
I bought it refurbished from a shop I specifically wanted to buy from (I MC'd a fundraiser for them a few years ago and it didn't go great, but they paid me anyway, so I wanted to give them my business, dig?). I love the bike, it's fun to ride, and so forth and so on. However, I'm not sure how I feel about the handlebars. I really wanted more traditional drop handlebars because I like to ride fairly far and fairly fast. However, everyone I talk to says these look really sharp and that they'd keep 'em as is.
So...do I keep them or change them? Is it ridiculous to ride a bike like this with clipless pedals and shorts and jersey and such? Would it be madness to do, say, a century with them? Should I just save the money I'd spend on switching and use it to buy a more road-bikey bike in the future?
Opinions, please.
It's your bike do what you like with it. It's fairly apparent that this is not a historically significant bike so modification will not impact it (not like it hasn't already been modified). I'm willing to bet that that thing started out with drop bars and was fairly low end when new.
If it were me I would take the suggestion of putting rack and fenders on it and then set some money aside for a dedicated road bike.