My "New" Ride
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My "New" Ride
Which is exactly the same as my old ride, just with different colors (and a bell).
Click here for the gallery with many more photos.
Click here for the gallery with many more photos.
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Sharp! I dig it! The color combo is nice and if you ever run into a little money, I think you should have it professionally done up like that. And the bell's just tits. I need to get mine put back on, I keep not getting around to it. When I get my grampa cruiser from ANT, I'll put one on for sure.
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Originally Posted by bostontrevor
Sharp! I dig it! The color combo is nice and if you ever run into a little money, I think you should have it professionally done up like that. And the bell's just tits. I need to get mine put back on, I keep not getting around to it. When I get my grampa cruiser from ANT, I'll put one on for sure.
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it is sharp, but golly, i really find those big-as-hell nitto bullhorns to be ugly. that's partly because i'm not longer a bullhorn afficionado--they don't work for me, right now, as they do for other people--but whatever.
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those fenders really make it, i think!
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Originally Posted by queerpunk
it is sharp, but golly, i really find those big-as-hell nitto bullhorns to be ugly. that's partly because i'm not longer a bullhorn afficionado--they don't work for me, right now, as they do for other people--but whatever.
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Originally Posted by FlippingHades
They are kinda ginormous, aren't they? I do wish they were slightly shorter, and I've actually often thought they look slightly unbalanced or out of proportion on most bike because they're so large, but they're still the best bars for climbing I've ever ridden, and I live at the top of a 16% grade
i loved the flop-and-chops on my old conversion, so i put syntace horns on my IRO, and i just hated them. much too flat on the horns, no matter what angle i put them at, and the bar end brake lever was too far away for when i needed it. so i scrounged some old drops and have been riding them since. the only thing i miss is accellerating with the corners of the 'horns, but i really like the leverage that the drops give me for sprinting. ach so...
i think i remember somebody comparing the nitto horns to a shopping cart.
i can definitely see using 'horns like that if my bars were low and my top tube was real short.
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Originally Posted by FlippingHades
They are kinda ginormous, aren't they? I do wish they were slightly shorter, and I've actually often thought they look slightly unbalanced or out of proportion on most bike because they're so large, but they're still the best bars for climbing I've ever ridden, and I live at the top of a 16% grade