Hah! if only. Cranky ex-skateboarder corporate tool would fit better.

^I can attest to this.

I really like it. Mine is an 05 non-disk. with an 8 speed mixed group it comes in around 23 lbs which is not bad for steel and a cheap mix of parts. This will be my first year racing CX so we'll see how it works out.

no you're a hipster, hipster!

dutret for hipster, '08!

How so?

I ride a fixed mountain bike and a fixed street bike, both with angled stems and bullhorns in line with the stems.

It took me a long time and a little bit of money to find this fit, and I didn't pick it for the look but for the function.

My bikes feel good and function well.

Why should this seem stupid to sniks?

just defending the riser bars on drop stem side of things.
I don't loike the way it looks.
it looks like a hybrid bike with bar ends.but I guess they are comfortable, every old lady on the bike path rides them. just saying but

I love my new road bike!

how is that a defense of riser bars with a drop stem?

Poeples complaint against them is that the two work is opposition to each other therefore only dip****s who care more about how a bike looks then how it rides will waste money doing it. A stem with rise raises the bars and angling up bullhorns makes them more likely to match the angle of the riders arms. It may look a bit silly but at least it doesn't reek of style over function like a drop stem and risers.

I know.

but I think the riser in drop stems comes mostly from people just taking their drop bars out and putting in risers cause thats the stem they have and they switch them out.

all my riser bars are in flat stems or riser stem

cool, seems like you were riding fixed for fashion and not passion if you jumped back to road bikes, and feel the need to make the "i love my road bike" statment that is so popular now.

oooooooh, nice rhyme scheme!

weren't you just in new york? are you still here?

HAHAHAHA, but I do love my road bike. You can't go back to something you were never in to before. I rode BMX all through my youth. Got in to fixed gear, wanted to go in to road - so I did. I ride my fixed gear 20 miles round trip to work every day too...man I have no passion.
Your passion lies in criticism on teh interwebs...GO YOU!!!
...but I do love my road bike.

glad you love your road bike.

but really why did you feel the need to tell us that?

cause you're cooler, because you moved on to road bikes?
I mean really.

thats a long commute good work!

you'll have a awesome cadence on your road bike.




and no I'm not in NYC anymore.

so these are the kind of boots that cat was wearing with no toe clips and no brakes.
no joke.

vans ok ,converse whatever, but these boots?
most of can agree that is really ridiculous.

I've said it before, but Converse or cowboy boots, I don't think that anything screams "I have no idea what I'm doing," like riding a fixed gear bike with no brakes and no pedal retention system.

115 posts later, still think so********************????

yah; lets just let the kids do what they want. If they think the bike is a cool fashion accessory it generally helps biking culture by having more people ride. The more people that bike the harder it is to ignore us..

who cares if they dress stupid

I just laughed so hard I dropped my PBR

yeah, i dig the non disk version a lot more.

lolz

yea man great point

maybe he was using the heel of the boot to hold his foot on? hehe

and the one giant problem with those boots, while not having clips or brakes, are those guys are really slick and slippery, even when they aren't wet, and when they are wet, they are like walking around on lubed up glass.. your foot would slide right off the pedal

i know cuz I had a pair of white snake skin stiletto cowboy boots.. they were so rad.. and so fake plastic.. but I almost killed myself several times while wearing them cuz they were so slippery.. but not on my bike

guys, pbr is great

I didn't make this, but it's suiting