Silly questions: WTF is up with upside down drop bars?
04-16-05, 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by khuon
Yeah but you can also pull of wheelies with bars in the traditional position... even from the drops... at least if you're Floyd Landis 
04-16-05, 03:53 AM
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Originally Posted by skanking biker
I live in a college town and since the weather got nice i've been seing all these road bikes with the drop bars turned upside so that the "drops" are on top and facing forward. Is there a reason for doing this? Are their frames just too large? Most of the people I see with their bikes set up like this are hippie college kids or the local vagabonds, although i do see an occassional roadie type like this. This may be a silly post, but this is driving me nuts and I need to know!
04-16-05, 04:37 AM
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Originally Posted by khuon
Yeah but you can also pull of wheelies with bars in the traditional position... even from the drops... at least if you're Floyd Landis
04-16-05, 05:18 AM
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04-16-05, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted by forum*rider
What tires are they using? Unless I'm going blind, they are purple.
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04-16-05, 08:02 AM
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Originally Posted by lisitsa
If you have clipless pedals doing that, (which he obviously does), imagine what would happen if you tipped the bike over, when doing a wheelie. Not pretty!
04-16-05, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by lisitsa
If you have clipless pedals doing that, (which he obviously does), imagine what would happen if you tipped the bike over, when doing a wheelie. Not pretty!
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04-25-05, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by khuon
I don't think it'd be that big a deal actually. I have clipless pedals on my MTB and sometimes if I'm not weighted front-to-back properly on a very steep offroad climb, I can overtorque and flip my bike. I have yet to be caught in my pedals when that happens. My feet magically come loose without me thinking about it.
04-25-05, 03:19 PM
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Someone "buys" (or otherwise acquires) a used road bike, but has no intention of riding it as it is supposed to be ridden - the work-around is to turn the bars up so they can sit upright and reach the bars.
04-25-05, 04:55 PM
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This was real common back in the 70's when I was in junior high. All the Schwinn Varsity's had the bars turned up. Made it easier to do wheelies.
(actually... no one has been at all cool since the 70's)
04-25-05, 05:14 PM
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Floyd and the guys are wearing sneakers, also those tires they are riding are not the onces they raced on that day. Either the wheels or the bikes are swapped before the parade laps. This keeps the tire sponsor happy, but those guys didn't ride onto the champs' with those clinchers..
They do train on them, at least when they are shooting the lance chronicles, but despite them being marketed as USPS race tires, they are/were not raced by the team.
They do train on them, at least when they are shooting the lance chronicles, but despite them being marketed as USPS race tires, they are/were not raced by the team.
04-25-05, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Ben Cousins
To answer the original question - are you sure they aren't bike acrobatics riders on a day off?
04-25-05, 07:22 PM
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I've seen this too, kind of defeats the purpose of having drop handlebars, but anything to be different I guess.
Originally Posted by skanking biker
I live in a college town and since the weather got nice i've been seing all these road bikes with the drop bars turned upside so that the "drops" are on top and facing forward. Is there a reason for doing this? Are their frames just too large? Most of the people I see with their bikes set up like this are hippie college kids or the local vagabonds, although i do see an occassional roadie type like this. This may be a silly post, but this is driving me nuts and I need to know!
04-25-05, 07:32 PM
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Sounds like a bunch of bull**** to me. The bars are inverted to make riding more comfortable. Not all individualls can bend over double to make their bikes preform like they wish. Ergo, inverted bars. I have one myself.
04-25-05, 08:16 PM
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I like the pic just wish I could do that on a $7000 dollar bike clipped in...Yep it does look like lance
04-25-05, 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Smoothie104
Floyd and the guys are wearing sneakers, also those tires they are riding are not the onces they raced on that day. Either the wheels or the bikes are swapped before the parade laps. This keeps the tire sponsor happy, but those guys didn't ride onto the champs' with those clinchers..
They do train on them, at least when they are shooting the lance chronicles, but despite them being marketed as USPS race tires, they are/were not raced by the team.
They do train on them, at least when they are shooting the lance chronicles, but despite them being marketed as USPS race tires, they are/were not raced by the team.
i geuss the only way you could explain floyd landis grinning like a fool after busting his ass is that he just finished the tdf...
12-08-11, 04:25 PM
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LOL. I used to have my handlebars upside down like this in my teens (early / mid 1980´s) - Quite a few of us did. Was truly very easy to get the wheel up and keep it there - LOL. As if I would do wheelies now... hehehe. :-)
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