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how can a bike with risers look 'fast'? if anything to me it looks slow. an upright riding position that makes you sit up like a big sail catching the wind, only it's slowing you you down not speeding you up.

Have'nt you heard of the riser bar aero tuck?

Haha, most horrendous decals ever!
Looks like 'when Topshop went punk'
Please be sarcasm?

hahahahahahahaa +10

That looks mid-crash to me...

that could go horribly wrong very quickly.

He needs some of my 'turd antlers' :)

The stem setups on those first 2 Yamaguchis are wank.

if you took the lowers off the forks they would fit on the stanchions (losing a bit of travel)

He's probably got them set way too stiff anyway like most racers who don't understand the actual benefit of running them correctly :)

that could go horribly wrong very quickly.

My thoughts exactly.

He needs some of my 'turd antlers' :)

Bolted to the tops of his forks, I'd say.

HOT.

if anyone knows where i can get something similar to this for me to ride at l'eroica please give me a pm

Looks like Nhatts old frame..RIP :(

My thoughts exactly.

Bolted to the tops of his forks, I'd say.

In the old days when I was skint and rode my old 26" singlepeed MTB on slicks around town, I would sometimes resort to a similar position on the long drags down Kennington Pk Rd and suchlike. Clearances were so huge you could grasp the (rigid)fork legs quite firmly and you went noticably faster. You couldn't do it after a big curry though.

The stem setups on those first 2 Yamaguchis are wank.

The third doesn't look too hot neither.

not sure i like the build but i do like the frame

Unbelievable bar fail.
The rest if gorgeous though, Yama's always do it for me.

Ahh nowt wrong with the bar to be honest, the set-up is simply for a comfortable ride around town, not for the TT of the Hipster Spice Route.

Why has he got that many spacers then?

The drop on that stem is the same he built up with the spacers, it would look a whole lot better and the bars would be in the same place with a sensible stem on and no/less spacer. I think its too much effort to have an agressive stem.

heres a normal sized image

i've got some like that for the track.... the angled bit isn't quite so severe, but they look quite simmilar.
have yet to ride them though.

Why has he got that many spacers then?

The drop on that stem is the same he built up with the spacers, it would look a whole lot better and the bars would be in the same place with a sensible stem on and no/less spacer. I think its too much effort to have an agressive stem.

The stem is lovely, so should be used. If you flip the stem and then use a flat bar, the hand position would be the same. Not sure how the owner came to the conclusion that to achieve the desired hand position, you need to go umpteen spacers up, steep stem down, and then riser bar up again.

Although IMHO it wants drops.

and secondly, it's a little hard trying to find a flat bar with similar sweep to a riser.

and secondly, it's a little hard trying to find a flat bar with similar sweep to a riser.

Not sure I agree with that.

Oh you know of one with similar sweep to an riser?

Most good flat bars used to come in 3 sweeps...or they always did back in my MTB days.
There's more out there than just Nitto remember. :)

Maybe it's different nowadays seeing as risers ar more common in mtbing?

pretty much, the only one I can find with a gigantic sweep is the Soma one;

but that's a specialist bar...most risers don't have that much sweep.
Standard sweeps are 3,5,10,15 degrees.
Bontrager do really swept back flat bars...so do on-one with the fleegle bar.