front wheel radial, makes a nice stiff wheel https://www.sheldonbrown.com/wheelbuild.html#radial

back wheels cant have radial spokes cause of the stress of the torque from your drivechain, it'd destroy it... i think. someone help me out here. AMIRITE

Looks like 2x to me.

That's exactly what a Japanese guy with bars like that told me.

Pimping it hard.

Boosh!!!!!!!!

The bars are frowning.

Hrm, I've hated that type of bar on other bikes but for some reason, they look okay on this one. Hrm....

I hate this bike.

The rims look like a f**king huge spoiler on a 1984 Toyota Corrolla. The bars (hear ya about use of drops - I've wrapped the shoulders on my track drops only) are fugly. I'm so busy being offended by this abomination that I don't even know what kind of frame it is.

Red wine makes me think funny.

It's an Iribe.


And still no answer....

no the whole advantage of hoods is they keep your hands at a reasonable angle. Those don't so you get the ****ty hand position that people are forced to tolerate on brakehoodless drops without extensions to snag your leg, any useful aero position and in this case bars that still hit the tt. Hooray for the worst aspects of every bar combined.

+especiallymavics. Reminds me of the Deemax and Crossmax wheels too, if only because I see those more than Ksyriums.

oooh thank you i was completely unaware of this. it still bothers me that they don't match but now i know why at least <3

you take the fun out of bikes with your posts.

you take the smart out of everything with your life.




Just kidding, but I lol'd on the inside.

perhaps if the fun part of bikes for you was riding ones that worked well without injuring you instead of just doing stupid **** to look different you wouldn't find this to be the case.

I don't think these wheels look like expensive ones at all either. I think the look really really cheap like something that belongs on a next or something.

Now I want deep section carbon rims that say "EXPENSIVE ROAD BIKE" in that font.

Dutret, you don't need brake hoods to ride a bike and be comfortable. Looking different has nothing to do with this. Individualism and conformity are allying forces, not anthithetical to eachother, and no matter what bar I choose I'll look the same as someone else with the same bars and different from every guy on a cruiser / road bike / whatever, but what does that matter?

PS I have risers and they are comfy. When I ride track drops on the track / commutes shorter than 15 miles, they are comfy too. There's no problems for me in terms of comfort / lack thereof.

bit defensive? Those bars are pointless and ****ty. They do not provide anything even remotely as ergonomic or aerodynamic as properly installed hoods or bullhorns.

Sure you can get away with riding on the shoulders for short infrequent rides but in the long term it's not good for you and many injuries have long lasting effects. Once you develop problems you will have to do a lot more to make them go and stay away then if you just rode on something approaching practical from the beginning.

Like it's been mentioned before, different bar setups have different purposes and I'm sure for all intents in mind on that bike (tricks), the bars work fine. If someone was going to use the bars for say, a century, your point is entirely valid.

how are they much better then uncut drops?

no unnecessary/uncomfortable leg to bar contact.

and how are they better then flat bars or risers?

Dutret what does your new sig mean? Are you pro-ss now?

they provide a great topic of discussion, for one.