a group of "older neighborhood guys" that hang out on one particular street corner in philadelphia with their handlebars flipped over?
sounds like bums to me.

grab your nuts and go find out.

Sweet! where in Philly are you?

im just a bit south of you. keep an eye out for my bikes!

Ooh, I love this one! Internet tough guy gets all tough, someone calls him out, internet tough guy says he wasn't doing what he did like 2 posts above, and tries to get all smart ass despite not quite having the smarts to do it. Person being trolled doesn't realize it's happening until it's too late, and both are sucked into a vortex of "Nuh uh!" "Yeah huh!" much to the amusement of the rest of the forum.

Bonus points if someone ends up B&. Come on everyone! Let's watch.

You had me until "person being trolled". Who is being trolled, and who is doing the trolling? If it's unintentional, it's not trolling.

Why doesn't anyone know what trolling means :(

I'm beginning to think everyone is trolling me by misusing the word troll all the time.

:lol:

Ah, bum bars...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/4...a4e2a3.jpg?v=0

In these parts, we tend to call them DUI bars too but usually the DUI guys usually all ride crazy looking department store mountain bikes that feature huge shocks on just about every part imaginable. They're also fond of riding in a really high gear...pedaling their asses off and going nowhere...on the sidewalk (on the wrong side of the road, naturally). My wife and I often joke that Mongoose or Huffy should just get on with it and make a bike called "The DUI", sold exclusively at Walgreens.

Looks like that guys takin' a dump.

Ilikebikes, as to the argument about whether or not they are called bum bars, just because you've never seen "bums" riding like this doesn't negate the fact that the entire rest of the universe calls them bum bars. Now would be a good time to stop being so defensive (seriously, you've responded to every single thing directed at you with either a "nuh-uh" or a "you are.") and just say, "huh, I never knew those were called bum bars. That's funny." Then you don't look like such a tool. Just get with it and stop being so contrary and pissy.

I think that bike should be a tricycle and have a gearing that makes it practically impossible to go faster than 10 mph.

Your reply will not look/read as stupid as it does if you read all the postings, not just the ones you pick and choose to read, that way you don't have to repeat **** that was already mentioned and smashed, there was a time that the "entire rest of the universe" thought the world was flat, guess you would have went along with that too? Hmmmm? speaks volumes of you. and if I "stop being so contrary and pissy." I'd prob end up a robot, just like you and everyone else that takes what they're told as gospel truth......no thanks, you can have that ****. Oh yeah, just for the record, do you really think I give a flying **** what your silly little ass thinks of me? :rolleyes:

way to prove LoRoK wrong there, ilikebikes.
that post wasn't defensive, didn't make you look like a tool, and you weren't pissy at all!
job well done!

Try reading it over again and you'll.....well......maybe you'll understand it.
EDIT: Actually no, don't read it over again, you are who you are, I'm not going to say what I think of you, 'cause that doesn't really matter, like I just mentioned, you are who you are, and no amount of anything will ever change that. :( (as a single tear rolls down my face. :rolleyes:)

Na, it's a re-run. Seen it.

What should we call them if we are going to get beaten up over calling them bum bars?
by the way the world is flat... http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djubl...rthsociety.htm
and everything you read on the internet is true.

Your prob going to get your as kicked no matter what you call them, so I guess you can call them what you want! :lol: ;) Wow! Sorry people, the earth is indeed flat, (so it says on the internet) Believe what you read! :) EDIT: I've been sick for a pretty long while now, those of you that know me know this, thats why I was cranky, so apologies to those who know me, those who do not know me can take the apology OR you can kiss my ass, the choice is yours! ;)

Just to bring this back on topic just a little bit...

Upside down drops are fairly common for bike ballet.

bike ballet? Never mind, had a brain fart.

Ah... but there is a difference between hobo bars and the bars Ilikebikes is talking about.

These are not hobobars since they are flipped up...and backwards.
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2009/sept/1/Caine-1.jpg

These ARE hobo bars because they were merely rotated up.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3497/...a260493e_o.jpg

^also because that bike belonged to a hobo.

Maybe a set-up like this?

http://velo-orange.com/vomoha.html

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-8422422..._2070_16383653

Seems like if you explain the safety concerns she should understand.

Your girlfriend wore diapers and rode a tricycle when she was younger too. Time to move on..........

I'm a fixed gear commuter and those flipped up, backwards bars look nice to me!! And if the guys in that YouTube clip use them, they must be cool, too!

I seriously did buy it from a hobo... did you see that original post?

bum bars! f*ckin yeah! if there good enough for bums there good enough for me ! On a side note i saw a bumish looking guy riding a bike today with 4 sets of old school mountain bike bar ends on each side... it looked like he was riding an Elk!

PS that video is sweet. I've never seen Quicksilver but now I want to!

"are bum bars the new risers?"

-No.

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