I endorse this behavior.[/quote]
i’m reading it as overly positive in order to convey sarcasm. i endorse that.
[quote=EJ][quote=filthysanchez]
I like having multiple hand positions and they’re great for tugging and stroking. I like drops too but really have to strain my neck to eat the dicks.[/quote][/quote]
[quote=filthysanchez]
Yep, you could do that too. Different strokes for different folks…[/quote]
yup
bros, I know I’m late to the bar fight, but just wanted to say these tilted-up cinellis feel good man and don’t look like ass SMB
Also these new guys are awful
Those Cinellis ain’t so bad. Maybe tilted up a bit much, but not horrible.
This thread sucks now.
Scott rules.
I’m drunk.
[quote=filthysanchez]
[quote=johnnyraja] (edit:added)
Pros of putting drops on your bike:
Having the position you want for that full 10% of the time you want it
Not looking like a jackass
Cons:
No bullhorn cred[/quote][/quote][/quote]
Here at tarck, we are about having all of it, all the time. Bullhorns = 90% as useful as drops. Drops = Same as bullhorns, + an extra hand position so you have that extra 10%, which gives you all of it.
I had bullhorns for a whole summer. They did not give me all of it.
Bro where did you go to journalism school? Cuz you suck at quote attribution
^lol.
hehe, i just clicked the wrong quote button.
DROP LYFE
Whenever I see full grown adults riding bullhorns I always think it looks weird. Maybe it’s because they’re the type who also pedal with their knees out and corner on the tops of the bars.
TC: I’m in the drops literally 85% of the time.
TBH, that kind of worries me bro. I mean, it’s all good when you’re riding track drops on a sweet fixie, but you need to know that this kind of riding just isn’t appropriate on a modern road bike. Maybe on some retro-Fred-tastic French rando bike, but not on the merckx bro.
It’s a Merckx.
I’m sure once I have hoods I’ll use them!
Used to set up bars like an idiot, then like Nate for a while. Felt like I had all the positions and comfort.
Over the past ~4 years, I gravitated to doing it like Fred (wish I could say that for more cycling matters). It’s given me more of it, control and comfort, and it effected my fore/aft weight distribution for the better. As a result, I use more of my bars now.
True story.
You guys are buzzkills. For two summers I rode my sweet fixie with some sweet ass pursuit bars on it. I didn’t want drops, I wanted people to know I was out there in pursuit of things. It could have been the pursuit of money, women, success, happiness or some other intangible and it wouldn’t have made a bit of difference because it didn’t matter. What was important was the physical manifestation that my bike was a vessel in my pursuit for some unknown thing, and like sisyphus this pursuit filled me with purpose every time I pedalled into traffic.
Once I got my life figured out I switched to risers though, 'cause I’m above all that bullshit these days.
I don’t really think that was like Sisyphus
It was exactly like Sisyphus. The struggle itself, to pedal into the wind without a drop position, is enough to fill a man’s heart.
I like pursuit bars on my fixies SMB