a desire for a large saddle to bar drop, entirely for the sake of fashion

i used to have a saddle that i had to slightly tilt down like that cos it hurt my balls.
i got a brooks, problem solved.

Ha ... well said. I think the aesthetic appeal of low-slung bars makes it a requirement to protect the ... err... 'nads. A level seat would probably force the rider to rock the hips back, maybe causing lower back pain, to protect said ... err.. 'nads.
Form over function?

Jim

It's possible to have low slung and a level saddle.

Tomity, Genki desu ka?

To answer your question most riders don't set their seat properly when using bull horn bars. The bars makes the rider move forward on the seat. They need to level the seat off and raise just slightly the seat post.

S/F,
CEYA!

Wheee...

The new ride is here and sorted:

Got some new parts in, so I decided it was time to throw some photos into this thread.

Here's my ride all dressed up for the track. No pink Phils, but I have yellow Michelins. They're pretty nice tires, since my Gatorskins got shredded by some nasty road hazards.

http://www.smurf.to/~vorbau/soma_s.jpg

And since I had the camera out, I decided to photograph my other love. Over 10 years old, and still ripping up the singletrack.

http://www.smurf.to/~vorbau/norco_s.jpg

Ok. I got everthing changed over from my 83 schwinn frame and had it put on my Surly track frame. The one I just got off craigslist. I also added a titanium selle seat and carbon fiber seatpost. This was suppose to be my beater bike.. Oops

I tried to upload the photos and the file is too large. Go here to check out the pics

ohh. i started to tape up the frame so it wont get scratched up from locking it up

http://iam.bmezine.com/q%5Cg%5Cofntwf/i13jdwf1.jpg

http://iam.bmezine.com/q%5Cg%5Cofntwf/mq5j56x2.jpg

enjoy

oops.. try this

http://iam.bmezine.com/iampix.exe?cm...22%3A29&desc=+

no good

oops.. how about this one..

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...20050430200508

or this one.. Grrrrr

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...20050430201216

yep those work, nice bike! looks bright too.(good or bad?, i like it)

im still taping it up so the lock wont scratch the frame

on sale - but only in green @ performance bike Vittoria Courier

tried to upload pics of the new ride and it said "file too large. limit for this filetype is 100.0 kb. your file is 1.33 mb." anybody know an easy way of explaining the remedy to somebody who is computer unliterate?

Try MS paint, it should say something like picture>resize.

Depending on what you have on your 'pooter, try opening the file in whatever image program you have (e.g. MSpaint). If you don't have one irfranview is a great freeware viewer with easy to use edit functions http://www.irfanview.com/

Try reducing the size of the image as well as the number of colours. You can, for example reduce the size to 640x480 and the colours to 256 without losing too much. Save it as a jpg or png file, which are generally smaller than bmp.

That should reduce the filesize substantially.

Second Irfanview. I find that even with 800x600 pics, saving as JPG/JPEG with a quality of 70 gives good results (under 100KB). It isn't necessary to reduce the number of colors with JPEG but go easy on the "sharpen" feature. I found that the more you "sharpen" an image, the larger the resulting JPG file will be.

here's the new mark vee. 62cm, stock build except the bars. oh and the carbon fork upgrade is sweeet. thanks tony. it's a little dirty but hey, it's alaska. the background is the bay across the street frome my new home in sitka, ak. that is off the sitka sound, gulf of alaska, pacific ocean. for your viewing pleasure i've also included some pics of a bear. and one of my new office: king air 200 medevac airplane--almost as fun as the bike.

Holy crap! Can I move up there?!?!

i chased a bear once while backpacking...not one of my brighter moments

what fork is that?

Fixie, Alaska, big fish, Beechcraft airplanes.... yup. You're my new hero!!!

that's the iro carbon fork option. i think it was like $99 extra.

8500 people in this town. believe it or not there's 1 other dude who rides a fixie regularly. 16 miles of road. lots of repetition... but lots of eye candy once the cruise ships start coming through in a few weeks.

yeah I wanna move there too, what do you do?