Opinions? I flipped these bars upside down and backwards. When sitting on the bike it feels kinda like an old cafe, or drag bike.

It always looks dumb no matter what.

I like my bullhorns, risers stick to my mtn bikes. And with them flipped like that your wrists won't thank you.

from an anatomical perspective, wrists don't like being angled down like that without a significant amount of supenation(thumbs forward, heel back... actually it's more technically a significant reduction in pronation). idea is to use 'townie' 'sparrow' 'mustache' bars with more sweep to them instead of risers if you want a slight drop and wide position.

it looks dumb because it's unhealthy for your joints and no one does it.

also, the saddle is slammed to the top of the seat tube and the frame is a large. methinks it doesn't fit you and no amount of bar swapping will fix this.

the t1 is a nice bike. this makes it look super, super dumb. cafe racer drop bars have way more sweep than those risers.

does that rear wheel have a quick release?

Looks like it...and there's nothing wrong with that. I guarantee there's way more torque being put on an axle during a climbing attack than any of us could dream of putting on our axles, and they're all using quick releases.

those guys are forces of nature.

and torque on axles over the duration of a pedal stroke is different than torque over the duration of the time it takes to stop a tire and put force back on it when initiating a skid at 30mph. not saying most qr skewers can't handle it, just saying there's a larger margin of acceptable error when torquing down a nut then setting a skewer.

didn't mean torque, meant sheer force. you can very easily put too much tension on a skewer or not enough, where it's harder to put too little torque on an axle bolt.

Lots of technical confusion in this thread. There is no torque on an axle. A track / horizontal dropout requires a tight axle nut / QR skewer to prevent slipping; a vertical dropout on a road bike does not. A closed cam steel QR can easily retain an axle in a horizontal dropout. A skid does not put more shear force on an axle that forward pedalling. The only force on a QR skewer is tension.

thank you for saving me from having to type this /\

That bike is wonky.

***** Tonky

Ain't no T1, it's got gears and cable stops, mate.

well lookat that.

yeah, **** that bike.

+5

Doh! Spending too much time looking at conversions in this forum made me think of the old forward angled dropouts. Especially embarrassing since I own two bikes with vertical drop outs. I still stand by the general sentiment of my last post, which is that a QR will hold a fixed wheel just fine.

adrianos bicycle fit parameters:

head tube*0.786=stem length
height*0.371=cockpit=stem+top tube
height*0.057=maximum bar drop

why not just flip your stem down or take some risers out and leave you handlebars normal? I guess this is more about aesthetics than the actual bar height though...and in that case, I think it makes a pretty nice looking bike look stupid.

^ Wait...wouldn't that make sense and be practical?

We don't want that here.

Way wonky. And pedalless to boot.

Chainless and brakeless too......yeeeeehaaaaaa!

you forgot about the quick release...

That would make it nutless too.

risers are called risers for a reason.

Otherwise known as rotating 180 degrees