well, eff me then, cause i'm with lófarkas on this one.
besides its not a stupid sense for fashion, its common
sense for function.

but if you want fashion tips to go with that mirror, i
recommend one of those orange safety flags, like this:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...CLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
cool, huh?

There's a difference between following fashion and not wearing stripes with plaids. LoFarkas is right. Your bars have a *****.

So how does a mirror take away from the function of a bike? As far as I'm concerned it adds function. I can see behind me much easier.

...one of the main points of a fixed gear bike
is the reduction of crap that you don't need.

Sounds like fashion talking to me.

I perfer to use a mirror. You don't. I can respect your sense of what's right for you, why can't you do the same for me?

ok, ok, but un-***** those bars.

besides, we criticize here because we love and care...

They are old time trial bars, beleive it or not, that's how they are made to be.

Ziemas, you posted pictues of your bike on the internet for others to see, you are inevitably going to get some negative comments unless you have the master of all bikes. I think LóFarkas was commenting on your bike, which just happens to be what people do here.

I'm well aware of what people do here. LóFarkas's post wasn't anything constructive in any sense, just a bunch of self righteous fashion slave babble. What's the point of that? I guess I just live a much more positive life than that.....

i could care less how you ride yer bike, but i think yer statement is incorrect. the picture immediately above yers in the thread shows a redline. the bars, are more in line with how they should be. the flat section (though obviously shorter on the redline's bars) of the bars is supposed to be parallel to the ground or thereabout. yers, *****ed up in the air like that, are akin to the bar ends on the walmart mtnbikes you see gramps riding - the bar ends are skied to air so he can hang on to the ends of them. not correct. they are designed to serve a specific function but, like yers, are bastardized into a position that screams 'dumbass.'


having said that...go with it if it gets yer rocks off.

Ziemas, your fixie looks pretty good to me. Like the kind that might actually get ridden (gasp!) in practical, real-world situations, by an actual human being who values comfort :D

Plus, I really love the beaten look of that Colnago frame, and the Brooks and the chainring. What model of Brooks is that?

B-17, the first one I ever bought, about 15 years ago.

I'm not trying to hate, like your frame and wheels a lot... but that's not how the bars are made to be. I have the same set of bars, this is them on an old bike of mine:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e399/dcraney/BK.jpg

Anyway, it doesn't really matter. Ride it how you like it and keep that mirror on there.

Mirrors rule.

I like to have bullhorns tilted way up, almost as high as Ziemas has them. It gives a more upright riding position... I used them basically like MTB bar-ends. I think the flat bullhorn position only makes sense if your saddle is way high up and you have a short top tube. My old fixie looked like this:
http://myxo.css.msu.edu/danimal/bike...2005_small.jpg

never having ridden b'horns but looking at them seriously, i would have thought: the section that angles down from the stem on either side would be used for riding in a tuck; the next section of the bars, the flats, when parallel to the ground would serve to emulate TT bars and allow the rider to ride a la TT-style, arms extended and body low; the ends, curved to the sky @ 45-ish degree angles would be used like bar ends/hoods; all thereby creating as many hand positions as necessary.

seems to me you take at least one possibility out of the equation when jacking them skyward like that.

If you need to have bullhorns up like that, it means that you

1) need to raise your stem
2) purchase a positive rise stem with some other bar

That's no different from the reason homeless people turn drop bars up, it's because they're too low for them. Yeah it looks weird, but if you like riding like that.

that colnago is like the opposite of those maury povich shows where the ugly girl in highschool grows up to become a super hot ****** dressing babe. Jus' sayin. I mean its still better than my colnago

If I raised the stem... then the bullhorns would be very uncomfortable because they'd be flat and at seat level! That would be like holding onto parallel bars with bent elbows, not a comfortable position for me.

I agree that the reason for the flipped dropped bars is because they want them up high... but this is NOT the reason why I raised my bullhorns. I wanted the horns to be fairly low, but at an angle. I also put ergo drop bars at a weird angle with the ends pointing nearly flat, rather than down towards the brake, because I like to have the ergonomic part at a different angle than most people.

My basic issue, I think, is that I don't like to have my elbows as bent as some people do.

I think moustache bars are weird and uncomfortable, while others love them. To each his/her own I guess :)

You clearly know what your'e doing mox so that post wasn't aimed at you :)

I think they are. Im gonna rock one on my Knuck.

+1 for whatever works for you...

My latest conversion. Its the first bike I've had that really fits me.
http://naughtylittlemonkey.org/sintesi1.jpg
http://naughtylittlemonkey.org/sintesi2.jpg

Its a Sintesi Marina. I don't know anything about the frame other than it is Tange2 tubing with mangalloy 2001 forks. The lugs and tubes look a lot like the nishiki that it replaced.

right on

i sure do like the term ***** bars though...

What kind of chainring is that?

looks fast and smooth, nice ride.