You mean they don't weave in and out of cars doing sw8 skidz with chopped narrow bars?

Damn times have changed.

mine, in front, a couple weeks ago



my previous bike, before I bought the Raleigh

Here are my risers plenty wide and I can still squeeze through tight spaces.

I hear you ...you can ride with 760 on singletrack...between static trees... But those pedestrians.. never know what to expect from them..

Who hates risers?

adriano does.

no way! i love icing my elbows because theyve been locked straight all day with my thumbs touching the stem.

crouching hipster, hidden risers

My Wabi Lightning with Risers.

Nice... turn the risers - engage the brake. No electronics involved.

Haha, yea, the brake cable looks really short in length in that angle. And my brake lever is hidden from the picture.

so do you actually have a problem with risers?

or just the way that alot of people configure them?

Visualize better.


The cable is too short though.

The horror, the horror...

Risers are made to be used on MTB frames with long tt and a long stem. People don't translate that well to road bike frames. It's the setup that's wrong, not the handlebars. Seriously though, that white bike must handle like ****

i've had risers on my fg before and they were quite nice and fun for short trips around town that aren't long enough to warrant a cycling kit and clipless shoes.

again one day I want to buy a new frame for fixed gear road riding purposes and convert my khs100 to a risers setup up w these




edit: sry i suck at computers and i can't make that image smaller

go for it, yall, but im not about being next to you at upper 20s mph plus

you spend alot of time at 30mph plus huh?

personally i wouldn't use risers on my bike if I even planned on approaching that speed...

but again i think the problem u have isn't risers themselves but the way ppls configure and use them, which i agree is stupid

I had to run a 160mm stem to get bars over the front axle.

Actually, the cable is just the right length if you see it in person. That picture just makes it look like its short and tight. But in actuality, it is not.

And track bikes aren't "meant" to be ridden on the street.

Who cares? I mean seriously for a lot more people than are willing to admit it, fixed gear bikes and culture are about aesthetics. Nothing wrong with that. Bikes are fun and functional works of art.

Many people aren't riding over 20 miles or over 20 miles per hour. Riser bars are often really comfortable for what most people do, most of the time. I like the way they look. I like how something meant for mountain bikes with long stems and huge widths have been appropriated by fixed gear culture to be these short curvy things with room for not much more than a set of ourys.

I have a much bigger problem with track bars which have exactly 1 comfortable riding position, the drops, and huge seat to stem drops for riding to the local coffee shop.

You can't seriously ride a fixed gear and argue about practicality.

downhill i do!

Your average MTBer hasn't run a stem over 100mm since 1998

Back in the day of long stem XC bikes, bars were much narrower. Now 28" bars are often run on stubby stems. Trading one for the other kinda balances out the steering physics.