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BDHU can get in the sea. My shit is how I like it.
Those bars have had about 40mm trimmed off, BTW.
If I remember right, it only took a day or two. Aside from the painstaking filing to remove the cable stops, most of the effort was figuring out how to do it.
... Actually, I did this on the wrong bike; it's a size too big. So the stem is shorter than I'd like, and the fit is a bit compromised. Not long after finishing this project, I finally found another one of these in the right size, so at some point I'm going to do it all over again.
I have the fit dialled in on the smaller bike (at least with the Red levers)... If that's also deemed uncool, I couldn't give a rat's. BDHU looks goofy to me anyway, as if trying to ape the look of old bikes before levers and bars totally changed. Come to think of it, I was BUHD (with the levers pointing inwards a bit) even before I had dual control.