OTP lovers!

Here's my OTP girlfriend – Surly Steamroller

Bought complete but has the following changes:

Black/brown Conti GP4000s
Yanco "Chavpad"
Cinelli natural cork tape
Cane Creek 5SRC gum hood levers
Japanese brass bell
Charge spoon saddle
Shimano 520 SPD pedals

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Hate the 'Chav Pad', love the brass bell - Freshtripe Sir? Suits you!

Chav is a la mode, but I may get some new threads next season

Tripe does seem to go with anything, though

I have two geared road bikes and two geared MTB'S. Im selling my Litespeed roadbike next, Im after a winter hack now.
Interesting. So you don't actually have any single-speed or fixed-gear bikes anymore? Well, not much I can say there really.

I think jhclare who started up the original thread on OTPs, also then sold his own, and quietly went back to geared bikes. Funny that.

Giant Bowery
Read tyre changed for a continental with red stripe top.
rear brake removed
Gold Finger brake
Stealth mode using electrical tape.
and thats it for now.
oh and its fixed.

I personally love the bike, it fits perfectly and is light, responsive etc.... my only advice to anyone buying one would be tighten everything as soon as you get it then once every two weeks.

photo from today.

here is a novel idea, take one good photo, dont use you computer to make it interesting, but your eye ad your camra.

@ ShannonBall. I like your style mate. Not my cup of Darjeeling, but still has its on essence. Makes the Felt Curbside look totally tarty. :))

Ga2g... It must be where my heads at cos I thought this was going to be about Lovers... and was wondering if calling them OTP was a cry for help.
So disapointed! x

ad your camra.

Camra added.
Hippy will be along shortly to approve.

Ga2g... It must be where my heads at cos I thought this was going to be about Lovers... and was wondering if calling them OTP was a cry for help.
So disapointed! x

That's why, even though I'm married, I call my bike "my girlfriend"

If I was going to purchase a lover OTP, I'd go Liv Tyler all the way... no upgrades needed - not even bar tape

Forgot to add my OTP lover:

I'm a bit confused about the track bar position - is that a normal position? or the drop part being more horizontal is the more accurate position?

It really depends on how you roll ed. I always sport a semi when on the bike and if you were to put a spirit-level on the furter it would be in perfect parallel with the bottom of my drops.

:)

I'm a bit confused about the track bar position - is that a normal position? or the drop part being more horizontal is the more accurate position?

thread hijack, but to hell with it, this thread was boring anyway.

If your bars aren't parallel to the road (top pic) then your set up is wrong.

Sorry VU - are you trying to describe the "normal" position with your OTP lover?

thread hijack, but to hell with it, this thread was boring anyway.

If your bars aren't parallel to the road (top pic) then your set up is wrong.

In your opinion, which is wrong :)

thread hijack, but to hell with it, this thread was boring anyway.

If your bars aren't parallel to the road (top pic) then your set up is wrong.

Wrong!!! All Wrong!!!

I would have thought that pro cyclist, or any cyclists using drops, would adjust to find the position that best suits themselves, and have a compromise between efficiency and comfort.

thread hijack, but to hell with it, this thread was boring anyway.

If your bars aren't parallel to the road (top pic) then your set up is wrong.

Utter bollocks Fred. See previous response from our very own very knowledgeable RPM, complete with pictures of pros who may have a fairly good idea of what position bars should be in.

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so there!

fred talking utter bollocks? No way!!

Anyway, this thread is boring, so he'll never post here.

Ha ha ha ha ha!!

pictures of pros who may have a fairly good idea of what position bars should be in.

:)

... but they're all on drugs, so what do they know?
;-/

They know where to get good drugs from, at the very least.

Wrong!!! All Wrong!!!

In your opinion, which is wrong :)

Utter bollocks Fred. See previous response from our very own very knowledgeable RPM, complete with pictures of pros who may have a fairly good idea of what position bars should be in.
:)

I can disagree if I want, and in this case I want. Rather than knee-jerk, engage brain and follow:

• track bars enable several riding positions
  
• the key position track bars are designed for (and we're interested in) is "on the drops" (ie not the hoods or tops)
  

• track bars are designed to have this critical section of bar at a specific angle and distance from rider for max power*

• though the same applies for touring bars and racers

ergo, if your riding position isn't comfortable, then you have the wrong shape bars and/or the wrong set up (stem height / length). You can get a set of bars to be comfortable if you set them up at an angle, but that doesn't mean that this is correct.

Bars at a slight angle up is usually the OTP "factory fresh" look, and comes from having a slightly higher riding position (on the hoods), beneficial when you're just getting used to a bike. Who hasn't got an OTP and dropped the bars a few degrees after the first week or two? Or to put it another way, who has bought an OTP and thought "I need to raise the angle of the bars"? (no-one!)

obviously there are exceptions for the very few, but the general rule still stands.

If you really don't believe me, then find me a monocoque bar which is not horizontal.

here is a novel idea, take one good photo, dont use you computer to make it interesting, but your eye ad your camra.

unfortunately I shall not be taking your advice on board because I edit my photos that is what I do, I work as a photographer and I hate to tell you this but...........people were editing photos long before photoshop in the darkroom. So dont start an anti editing debate as you obviously know nothing about photography. correct me if I am wrong.

unfortunately I shall not be taking your advice on board because I edit my photos that is what I do, I work as a photographer and I hate to tell you this but...........people were editing photos long before photoshop in the darkroom. So dont start an anti editing debate as you obviously know nothing about photography. correct me if I am wrong.

i think he simply meant that nowadays people spend too much time messing about in Photoshop than taking photos.

fair enough but I disagree I spend a whole day taking photos and then (in my opinion ) I improve them through the use of photoshop and other programms.

Anyway I have spent days in a dark room printing a single image for an exhibition, it is much faster in photoshop than in the traditional way.