Profile Design Ultra FR risers, chopped to maybe 18"? using black oury grips that are super comfy.

i personally vow to not run risers or flat bars on a road bike, but i have to admit, i'm rethinking that for just tooling around on campus and for trackstands and such

This bike is interesting. I think I really like it.

Yeah, I have to agree. I never rode risers until recently. I didn't really see the point and they seemed a little too tarcky for me, but when I got a new bike earlier this year that I thought they'd look OK on and I just figured I'd see for myself what risers are like. They are Nitto B-259AA and have about a 1" rise and a little bit of sweep, and Oury grips. The bars are fairly narrow to begin with and I didn't cut them down.

I have to say, I don't see the advantage. Maybe if you grew up on BMX there is a comfort level there? For me they just aren't great. Actually, though I don't do bar spins it is nice that I don't have to worry about the bars swinging around and denting my top tube. I don't mind how they look, either. But I don't really like the upright riding position and they aren't good for climbing. I dislike not being able to change hand positions too. I have ridden them enough that I kind of got used to them and they aren't so bad for riding in downtown traffic...I will keep them for a while, but I definitely am not a convert.

kinda sounds like you are... jk

i loved my risers when i used them, but now i am back to bullhorns for better climbing reasons. i've also always thought that the "exact same position on the tops of drops or bullhorns" argument is stupid because you aren't in the exact position. unless the "risers" you are riding aren't risers at all, but are just flat bars with 6 inches on either side, then, no, that is not the exact same position. risers have their advantages (upright riding position, better visibility to cars) and their disadvantages (not many hand positions, hard to climb with). to each their own.

also, LOL @ people who ride track bikes on the street and complain that "risers don't belong on track bikes."

Try riding around on a bmx for a while and experience the handling when traversing through city streets. It's pretty quick. True, hand positions on a set of riser bars can be approximated with any number of bar/stem combinations, but the possible placebo effect of having these on my bike cannot be overstated. And I'm not sure it really is a placebo effect. If anyones' got a study done on the handling of risers v.s. other bars, post up That said, I ride around with bullhorns because I do have to climb a fair bit on my daily commute.

edit - And not that I have any experience with them, but don't they block the streets off for crits? You don't go through the bumper to bumper car traffic, pedestrians, etc. It's still a race, not the unpredictable, day-to-day obstacle course of city traffic. I'm kinda talkin outta my ass on this though.

whenever i wanted to go faster, i put my elbows down on my grips and looked at my top tube.

I just switched from risers to bullhorns and love that much more, but when I was riding risers I rode champion (I think? Disappeared from the internet apparently) grips and loved those. Not to hate on the standard but Iv always found oury grips horribly ugly and much too bmx for my personal taste.

I'm running those risers too... but in carbon! Also looks like its got a lot more rise than yours. I chopped off the bar-end reinforcements and put on Snafu BMX grips. Not sure how wide they are.

I put my Paul lever on right where the bars drop into the rise part. It effectively raises the position of the lever since it's angled downwards slightly. It's kinda hard to explain and I don't feel like taking another photo of it.



The HED3 is a joke.

you've got that right.

That's the same thing I say.

everything about this bike is so perfect.

i love those /\
everyone i have seen looks amazing

yea, old cdale track frames are hot. especially that one because it is huuuge. paramount, how tall be you?

hed3's brighten my day.

2 inch rise, about 38cm..ourys. usually the bars should be as wide as ones shoulders

what stem is that? looks really nice...

Thanks!

Yeah, I'm about 6'2" and all legs -- I was really lucky to find that bike in my size.

only 6'2? and it fits you well?

Lol @ people who call fixed gears track bikes.

so by that standard, a concept is not a track bike? or a TK2? stfu.

i just put a new set of DMR Wingbars on my ride. cut em to like 17". they seem like good bars for 40 bucks.

I like easton monkeylite carbon risers chopped to about 16" across. Took me a while to find the perfect bars. The carbon is really thick and cuts fine, remains strong.

stock length of the B-259AA's. i was planning on chopping them down a little bit, but they ended up being perfect for me. longer grips give plenty of hand positions, so when i want to get close to the stem i can. i don't see any advantage to having them shorter than this.

Some generic Nashbar risers I spray painted purple