Bike porn

sounds dumb to me because simply spinning the bars up would accomplish the same thing with less lunacy. You'd just grab the drops part, which is now upward and backward facing. i just don't believe any reasonable builder would incorporate such complexity into a stem so the bike is comfy to ride home.

interesting bit of culture though.

well that's the point, the bar will be upside down so the racer can ride home in an upright position, it was a time where people can't afford motorised vehicle, and the only way to get to and from the race is to use the bike you're racing on.

Either that or my grandfather been fibbing about racing in the golden age of cycling.

*cough, bollox! cough!

If you loosen the top bolt on a quil stem, you can raise the bars, often quite a lot.

its true I saw it on the interwebs.

you lie Smallfurry!

Anyone got a pic of a bike with this stem and drops upside down? I'm intrigued as to just how stupid it would look.

rear tyre fail on the grandis

And front hub fail on a 650

1993 60cm titanium Basso with full Dura-Ace 7400 8 Speed group ..

Can't be a 7400 the STI perhaps but this cranks,brakes and 8speed stuff is not...Nice group anyway!

http://www.ibiscycles.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/ibismojohd02.jpg
Ibis Mojo HD

Anyone got a pic of a bike with this stem and drops upside down? I'm intrigued as to just how stupid it would look.

Nobody saying it look attractive at all! that how it used to be back in the 50-60's.

(as well as carrying tubular wheels on the bicycle).

I actually used some of these in the 1980s

what are they?

Shoe horns

Click on the thumbnail it takes you to an explanation and there is a link to a picture of them in use

what are they?

I love this - he's drilled just about everything!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chris531/3202039998/in/set-72157603595434172/

"Just to add to the entry posted on my behalf by Chris 531 (above).
I can add:
The bike was 100% Inspired by the Alf Engers machine that I had seen in the UK "Cycling" magazine's during the early 1970's. In Australia during the 1970's there was no weekly TT racing at all and so the average road rider would contest perhaps only 2 TT races per year and those would be in the club and state championship events that were offered.
I drilled the seat piller like the Engers machine and like-wise copied the pedal slots from a Ken Bird TT bike article that I had read in "Cycling".
Chainring and crank spider holes including a hole in each chainring tooth were copied from the Engers machine along with the drilling of the rear Campagnolo Record changer, the handlebar drilling and the Weinman junior brake modifications. The bike having been built in Australia was not a genuine SHORTER bike but rather a modified track bike, the track bike ends were modified to take the Campagnolo gears by Australian Olympic cycling machanic Bob Farley. I identified the bike as an ALAN SHORTER bike only because my TT hero Alf Engers rode a SHORTER brand bicycle in the early 1970's
I used this bike to to win the Victorin State under 18 years 25 km TT championship in 1975 ( geee... I think it was 1975 anyhow) I do remember that I rode the 25 Km in 35:01.
Thanks to Dave Holiday and Derek Cottington and forever thanks to the TT "King" himself - Alf Engers for those inspiring years."

Don't think I've seen this before;

Then you havent been paying attention - still one of my favorites, always worth an oggle

I don't remember when it was last posted, must have been a while ago.

can understand the toptube protector,
if you dented that you'd have to do the honorable thing and bite your own fingers off.

Then you havent been paying attention - still one of my favorites, always worth an oggle

+1

...tee he!

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Can't be a 7400 the STI perhaps but this cranks,brakes and 8speed stuff is not...Nice group anyway!

you're right. my mistake. I just rechecked the site I grabbed the pic from and the Basso has Dura Ace 7402 to be precise ..

Dura Ace 7402 to be precise ..

The rear derailleur is an RD-7403, to be even more precise.

^ looks like you've met one worthy rival, MT :))

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Originally Posted by maxcrowe
Don't think I've seen this before;

Then you havent been paying attention - still one of my favorites, always worth an oggle

That'd be the bestest for wheelies, alleycats, posing and ramps! Shame it can bar spinz