It's called a "cross lever". They're used for cyclocross. Tektro sells them in pairs for ~20-30 dollars. They're at all my LBS'.

Reminds me of a cheesy display I saw in a mall as a kid: suv sitting on 4 tea cups, one under each wheel.

im working on it.

and ps. this fight is ****ing stupid. the bars are functional for me. im not looking for "street cred"

Someone should build a Seuss Bike.

new build...and the Umezawa is going on the docks.

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This was on the way to the brake-hole driller. I'll post some pics of that saga later....
The frame rides beautifully and fits me better than the Umezawa size-wise. Super stoked :)

sweet bike nateintokyo

what size?

there was a 59cm GIRO that was white iwth pink fade on the sides on ebay...i almost bid on it...but i got drunk and passed out because it ended late at night...

I love the look of white bar tape, but too bad it only lasts a week or so

it was pretty. someone in nyc got their hands on it. good price too...

I have ridden my Fizik White bar tape for a couple weeks now and the color is still very much white. Cork tape would have been dirty after a day.

I second this. I have had white tape for a month. Still white

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All campy and the seat is changed to a sella italia Flite and the straps are white...
I am so stoked on this bike.
Its nibble and fast.

yeah it was a good price.
that blue vivalo the same seller had was awesome too.

sweet bike mista samsa.
don't see giordana's very often.
my boss gave me a giordana road bike. it's real nice but about four cm too large unfortunately.

hot hot hot !

oh gosh! haha i didnt realize

well thank YOU for the funny picture of us

if it fits you so well, why is the stem jacked so far out of the hedadtube?

he just said its better than the umezawa. not so well. :)

That is neato. I love it. Yeah. It's a Triax, right? Another lovely creation from our friends at Dynacraft (http://www.dynacraftbikes.com/). It has the sticker on the seat tube that reads "This bicycle is NOT designed for stunting or for off-road use". Incidentally that same sticker is on their "mountain bikes". Check out a Next or Anza or Vertical bike next time you are in Target. And for that guy who said the Crank Bro's fork is blah blah... that is the genuine stock imitation bladed fork. Amazing what a perfectly placed decal can do to peoples' perceptions.
And...

And dammit! I was at Target three days ago and there was that exact bike with $37-something price tag on it. I rolled it over to the price scanner thinger on the aisle, but the thinger wouldn't scan and then my wife caught me. We were on our way to Interbike, a 760 mile road warrior day. It would have been silly (not to mention ironic) to drive to Interbike packin' a $37 Target bike.

So I didn't buy the bike. And I still don't have me a road bike, besides my $15 yard sale Matsuri Jaunter XII that I resurrected SS. And then my bike lust haze cleared and I realized it was a 64cm frame, and I'm only 5'10". And I can ride it but I feel like an 8 year on it, and I can't even straddle the f-er.

I love it, but it is too large a horse for me. And I lavished love and $70 in parts on it. And I must say, when I finally do get me's a roadie bike I think I will build it fixed! And I will probably learn to skip and skid and probably hurt myself. But maybe not.

;) ...right?!?


It's 58cm c-c. The Umezawa has a reverse slope to the headtube and was super low as a result. I swapped the parts at 2am the night before and was playing around with a bunch of positions yesterday. That's what it looked like when I took the pics I posted. I settled about an inch lower that that but I'm still messing around :)

i thought the giro was hideous. i bought the vivalo, however.

my developing project for the winter-

Agreed, but Fi'zik certainly keeps white much longer than anyone else.

awesome. i do think the vivalo was nicer looking. post some pics and enjoy it.