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Interesting bike sighting
I was out shopping today, and saw a Schwinn cruiser with the narrowest drop
bars I've ever seen. 38cm easy. Looked like keirin bars, wrapped with black electrical tape. |
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My 1999-ish tempo came with 40cm Cinellis. I think it was the fashion
to be aerodynamically narrow on the high-end bikes like the Tempo, Prologue and Paramount. |
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"bryanska" wrote in message ups.com... My 1999-ish tempo came with 40cm Cinellis. I think it was the fashion to be aerodynamically narrow on the high-end bikes like the Tempo, Prologue and Paramount. That I do not doubt. Seeing such narrow bars on a classic cruiser struck me as kind of odd. Whitewall tires and all. |
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The stock drops on my 58cm Viscount were @37cm, not that bad really,
though I'm now on 42cm. I saw a similarly narrow flat bar on a huffy cruiser this afternoon. Narrow enough to ride wearing handcuffs. |
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"landotter" wrote in message ups.com... The stock drops on my 58cm Viscount were @37cm, not that bad really, though I'm now on 42cm. I saw a similarly narrow flat bar on a huffy cruiser this afternoon. Narrow enough to ride wearing handcuffs. So am I somehow missing the reason behind this odd combination? |
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:50:56 +0000, gooserider wrote:
I was out shopping today, and saw a Schwinn cruiser with the narrowest drop bars I've ever seen. 38cm easy. Looked like keirin bars, wrapped with black electrical tape. It's definitely weird to see them on a cruiser, but such narrow bars used to be standard. Over the years my bars have gone from about that size -- certainly below 40cm, to the 44's I wouldn't be comfortable without today. In fact, on my commuter I couldn't stand the bars that were on it -- and those were the ones I had raced with, 35 years ago. So I got another set of 44cm cross bars. -- David L. Johnson __o | When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember _`\(,_ | that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ (_)/ (_) | |
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gooserider wrote: "landotter" wrote in message ups.com... The stock drops on my 58cm Viscount were @37cm, not that bad really, though I'm now on 42cm. I saw a similarly narrow flat bar on a huffy cruiser this afternoon. Narrow enough to ride wearing handcuffs. So am I somehow missing the reason behind this odd combination? g-e-t-a-w-a-y v-e-h-i-c-l-e :P |
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In article , gooserider
) wrote: I was out shopping today, and saw a Schwinn cruiser with the narrowest drop bars I've ever seen. 38cm easy. Looked like keirin bars, wrapped with black electrical tape. I saw a courier the other day whose bars were ju-u-u-u-st long enough for him to place a hand either side of the stem, and no more. -- Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/ I thought I saw his name on a jar of marmalade the other day, but when I looked more closely, I saw it read 'thick cut'. |
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