Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

Go home Paris, you're drunk

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Typical two-four carrier, nothing to see here.

• beers
  
• see fubar
  

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Hmmmmm

Fucking hell I thought this was horrible but in comparison to the Look and the Fondriest it suddenly looks rather nice

That upside down handlebar thing is very French...and has arrived in Belfast now.

Bloody foreigners, coming over here, turning their handlebars upside down.

That upside down handlebar thing is very Seventies.

Kidz, tcha!

Bloody foreigners being stuck in the 70s...

I'm too "young" for that, but I can't recall ever seeing it on Dutch bike pics, this was a UK thing too?

I'm just curious. Seems such a random thing to do :)

this was a UK thing too?

They have been seen in the UK, but the USA has two (related) names for them, bum bars and hobo bars, so they are obviously quite a thing on their side of the ditch. If you google 'guidon vagabonde' you get German lesbian handlebars, so there seems to be some kind of connection albeit that the French welfare state provides the homeless with new bars whereas American tramps have to put up with inverted drops.

I am still confused by how this bar angle came a thing. Do people really match the bar angle with the TT?

Do people really match the bar angle with the TT?

Yes, but usually they manage to get the saddle angle to match too. Score points for sloping top tube + track stem + wrist-breaker bars, deduct points for not getting the saddle in line.

All terrible

ftfy

Bloody foreigners, coming over here, turning their handlebars upside down.

I know this reference!

I'm too "young"...

"Why, you young rascal, you!"

Ah, what ive been doing wrong.

I guess it makes sense cos aeroz

Up north we had no formal name for them unless it was two-four bars; this referred to them providing a better platform on which to balance 24 stubbies, the largest box of beers you could buy at the time. Or at least the largest you could easily balance on those bars.

... Sorry couldn't resist

Nice and grainy

Thanks for the explanations ^_^

I'm eagerly awaiting the moment my son is old enough to go "Mum, you're SO uncool" then ageing has really arrived.

I was cycling through a small France village about two years ago. Somewhere on top of a hill with old houses. Was awesome. Then I saw this grandpa, riding his old-school road bike in his sunday outfit with a beret on his hat, slowly riding next to the sidewalk. His handlebars were flipped upside down and he had his baguette stuck in the brake levers. He had a rear rack with a bouquet of roses on it. Now that is gangster :)

I have seen it a few times. I guess the people don't know that it's not supposed to be like that. At least, I hope so.

What they do know is that the 'ten speed' they are riding has bars that are too damn low. That's pretty much all of it.

lol is this that GT from cp with the bolted on track ends and paper gussets with a lavender rattlecan job?

lol is this that GT from cp with the bolted on track ends and paper gussets with a lavender rattlecan job?

No, it's this one:

latest Japanese fixie fad is drillium deep dish rims? or haven't I been paying attention to the latest hip stylez? :-/

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