Rat Bikes! Pub Bikes Beaters! Frankenbikes!

no

^^^ It's like your bike is wearing a turtleneck, I like it.

Outside W-Base I see!

http://chrisborneorestos.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/brooklyn-machine-works-2.jpg

BMW rat radness..

road pedals on a beater >>>>>>

road pedals and risers >>>>>>>

That is true..

why?

(waiting for an ill-informed response)

road pedals = max efficiency, and a pain to clip into when riding about in town. And road shoes = walking like you've been sodomised, and falling down stairs.

basically, risers and beaters are practical, road shoes arent.

road pedals on a beater >>>>>>

road pedals and risers >>>>>>>

I have a feeling they put those on for an alleycat race of some sort and usually use other pedals

Doubt it but even if they did it's silly to not put other bars on if you intend to race.

my fixi2country

Doubt it but even if they did it's silly to not put other bars on if you intend to race.

yeah racing an alleycat in road shoes would suck

racing an alleycat would suck

ftfy, do a real race.

kerob does

road pedals = max efficiency, and a pain to clip into when riding about in town. And road shoes = walking like you've been sodomised, and falling down stairs.

basically, risers and beaters are practical, road shoes arent.

You need road shoes with those? They look SPD to me.

SPD-SL they're shimano road pedals and require a 3 bolt mounting system.

Either way the guy has obviously ridden the shit out of it so it, maybe for some reason that's all he had to ride with.

Ooh

what bars are these?

DeRosa is perfection.

I'd love to have that DeRosa. I would however rebuild it a bit to an oldschool roadbike set up and probably hang it on the wall.

those Stronglight cranks are awesome...very metal