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Anyone know what bars these are?

https://static.lfgss.com/attachments/22615d1268927365-jason-cam-057.jpg

I think that Soma Fabrications and Rivandell sell similars in USA.

I liked it. Those crank is awful. I will put risers on it.

sorry but this is all a bit weird. one minute 'I never go on drops, they are useless to me and is bad for riding in a heavy traffic.'

next minute 'I used drop-bars by habit'

wtf? i'm calling it...don't mean to offend, but I smell BS. i can't believe the same brain gave birth to those 3 bikes.

would love to be proved wrong though so post a pic of those three fellas together will ya?

D-Goods,

In the past, I used drop-bars and stayed with hands on top of it, in other words using them as a flat bar. Now I changed that, I have risers or a "chop & flop" drop bar with "triathlon" brake levers.

Look at this link you will see some of my bikes:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31057925@N07/

The KHS is being repainted, and will be assembled in a different way - shorter stem etc and it will use a Surly Dingle cog.

I thought the other bikes were nice. With the one underlining factor being the handlebar height. High handlebars never look great, but not everyone is uber flexible, so its not a fail in my mind. I just cant fathom why someone who cant even bend themselves onto a standard drop-bar set-up, would look at a low-pro frame and think 'thats what I need'.

Not feeling the brake lever positioning, but I like it.

Thanks. I miscalculated badly on the Lo Pro. In the past, I used drop-bars by habit. A few years ago, I gave up and went for high handlebars - a trade off between confort/pleasance and aesthetics.

The Alien is dead pretty. Can't believe it's owned by the same chap who birthed that other POS into an unsuspecting and frankly unprepared world.

Thanks. I just like to try new things, sometimes things don't go well. In the end, all have had a lot of fun with that. Cheers.

13 year old alu riser bar?
Not a fan of your teeth?

It has been in hibernation for 12 or 11 years.

It's a bit wierd some bits are new:
Risers, frame logo, black cxp22,

other bits are 'vintage':
lugs and colour of frame, all the chrome, old campag cranks, chainring, stem, brooks, gumwall tyres etc

You'd be better off putting drops on it, esp considering there is not much seatpost showing and it has two brakes. However, then you've still got the problem of the typeface of the logo (head explodes)...

I never go on drops, they are useless to me and is bad for riding in a heavy traffic.

Riser is 13 years old, it has been annodized titanium in order to match the stem color (Grammo titanium).

The typeface of the logo is the original one, except that the "A" is solid in my bike. I bought it as bareframe without paint from Alien Bikes an year ago.

That jig looks great!
Will he be using it on the Telfer...?

Nope. I will spare the Telfer from this fate. However I am looking for ideas where I can use it. Today Ceeway delivered some track ends and I am ready.

So you have both pics.

There's a Merckx crying in one of those pictures... poor thing.

I rescued it from the dumpster. It is a SS for my wife and she loves it.

+1

No need to criticise someone for their language skills. There's plenty of other stuff to criticise.

Louis, are you saying that the Alien is like your lopro? If so, please enlighten us. I can't really see it.

Nope. I just rode both sequentially in order to get a better feeling about the handling /steering of each one. You know the conclusion.

I doin´t have it at office. It is at home computer.

Louisc1, the Flickr now-you-see-me-now-you-don't trick leads me to think you're indeed trolling.

Louisc1, the Flickr now-you-see-me-now-you-don't trick leads me to think you're indeed trolling.

No way. I post the link in the previous post. Cheers.

Loisc1 (or anyone else) can you please post a picture of your bike again. I never got to see it and as a result feel like an outcast of the lfgss community

Look at http://www.lfgss.com/thread4037-167.html

What ?

Have you never seen that? It is possible.

I'm pretty sure I see a lock ring on there, I imagine Louis will correct me if I'm wrong. It might not have qualified for this thread on its own merit, but in contradistinction to his Telfer, and also to all the anti porn bikes with the ur-hipster combination of risers and Brooks, it's a shining example of simple elegance.

It is a fixie, but in order to be safe in any event she has brakes. the details of the set up is below:

The frame is an Alien (with a Time carbon fork 1”) which was added a set of cable stops, a set of water bottle braze-ons, a small tube at seatstay bridge for a brake and the rear triangle was chromed. Besides that, I substituted the original fork due its short steerer tube that only allows a Tange Passage headset or an old Shimano 105 with 33mm stack height .

The crankset is an old Campy Pista (drive side) 165mm and 144BCD, and the left side was a Campy Strada (drive side) that I converted to non-drive side and a machine shop rethreaded it in order to accept a left pedal.

The other parts are as follow: – Headset: Campy Record; / Stem: Cinelli Grammo (titanium); / Handlebar: Azonic Double Wall Riser (54 cm);/ Grips: Outland;/ Brake Levers: Suntour XC Pro (champagne color);/ Seatpost: Record Aero; / Saddle: Brooks Professional; / Bottom Bracket:: Sampson Titanium 103mm; / Chainring: Sugino Mighty Competition 44T – 3/32”,/ Chain: KMC Z610 HX;/ Pedals: Chorus Aero with Brooks straps; / Rims: Mavic CXP22 ;/ Hubs – Front: Record Pista – Rear: IRO flip-flop (low flange) with an IRO cog – 17T and a Wheel Mfg lockring; and on the other side an Eno freewheel with 17T; /Brakes: Campy Chorus and Slime tires 700x25.

Are you a bit simple mate?

What do you mean?

what do you mean which one? the one that was up yesterday, the one that everyone was talking about for the last 2 pages. the telfer with the 700c front wheel.
but post all your bikes. i know most people would love to see them.

This one I used last night for comparing with the Telfer.

Look at this with this handlebar:

aaah hahahahahahaha I can't believe people fell for this haaaaaa (breathe) hahahahaha. Mate that is well funny. Good on ya..............This is a joke right?

It has been a lot o fun with that. hahahahahahaha

@Louisc1:
could you put the picture of the bike back up? Since it produced such a big discussion it deserves to stay up. It should be in the gallery for future generations to see it and learn.

Which one do you want?

Post a photo of that.

It is being painted.

It will break in half eventually. It happened already. Try to listen to guys - they may be crude, but some on here have quite an experience with bike racing, maintenance, professional bike and frame building...
Bring this Frankenbike to drinks and have a chat.

Thanks for the advice. I rode both , the Telfer and a real track bike from Alien bikes, tonight. It is not worth the trouble with the Telfer, maybe someday I will buy a La Piovra frame ( I liked those curved tubes), till there I will ride my KHS Aero Turbo - converted to fixie, which has the curved seat tube.

You will lose your face, and possibly your skull if you're lucky.

Ed,

For what? By riding my frankstein or because Fruitbat?